Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

It's a great time for family crafts. Here's a ghost Halloween decoration you and your child can make together.

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

Your first grader can create this cute heart puzzle with craft sticks and watercolor paints to challenge her friends!

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

What would it be like to be the Cat in the Hat from the famous Dr. Seuss book? This Read Across America project has your 1st grader making his own fun-in-a-box!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

This competitive inequalities card game is a great way to help your child understand the connection between numerals and the values they represent.

Our breath is supporting us all of the time, but sometimes we don't even know it! In this activity, your child will discuss how they feel when they focus on their breath and learn tools to help them feel calm and at ease.

If your first grader has a hard time practicing his vocabulary skills, introduce him to this fun word building game.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

Play this homophone game with your child the next time you sit down with them to read a story and help them build some valuable reading skills.

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

Get ready for Halloween with a pumpkin mask made from construction paper!

Having some dancing skeletons hanging around the house is great way to prepare for All Hallows' Eve. This is a great activity for honing fine motor skills.

Your first grader will love making her favorite feline a chase toy out of old fabric scraps, and she will learn beginning sewing basics while she's at it!

Challenge your kid's creativity with a fun fall art project that features you as the collaborator.

The objective of this science project was to build a model of a volcano and observe reaction between different substances, including baking soda and vinegar.

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

In this activity, you and your child will practice taking a movement or calming break during homework or when feeling tired. Then, your child will write about and draw what the experience was like for them.

Your first grader will gain an understanding of time management as your holiday tasks become manageable, with this to-do list reinvented as an advent calendar!