This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

Challenge your 1st grader to skip count with this sequence game. Help him find missing numbers by figuring out the pattern and building on math skills!

Make vibrant faux stained glass art inspired by the art of Piet Mondrian, a Dutch painter who explored repeating shapes using the primary colors.

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

Think you can blow up a balloon without using your mouth? This isn't just a cool trick, it's also a great way to introduce chemistry and biology concepts.

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

Transform a single sheet of card stock into a double-sided painting of opposites: on one side, a bright daytime landscape, on the other, a dusky evening scene.

Celebrate all your wonderful tongue taste buds with a giant paper tongue project -- you'll even get to decorate it with actual pieces of candy!

Jump into the story of Cinderella by making a pumpkin coach of your own!

This heart paper chain is the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day. Include some decorations in a simple AB pattern and work on pattern recognition.

Big bags hold a lot of candy, but they're hard to tote around. Have your kid construct a candy corn candy holder perfect for carrying a few lightweight treats.

Decorate your porch or backyard with this unique fall craft!

Reflect on how fast your child has grown this past year with this ruler frame craft, perfect for gift-giving!

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

This fun art activity will get your child's creative juices flowing and will teach her about shapes, pattern and texture along the way.

In this science fair project, kids measure how weather conditions affect how fast a puddle evaporates.

Give Hallmark a run for its money with these handmade printed cards.

Your first grader will love this addition challenge! Roll dice and keep a running total as you try to achieve the highest score.

Remind your child of all the things that go bump, bump in the night with a fun post-Halloween activity.

Your 1st grade scientist will improve her observation skills as she's encouraged to eat healthy by comparing the dry and fresh fruit in this experiment.

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

This stocking craft will get your child to make a fun and textured collage for Christmas. Make this stocking craft with your child this holiday season.

Your child will make her mark on the world with unique homemade ink stamps.

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will create a goal board and practice setting one goal for an assignment or task and the steps they will need to achieve it.

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

Make a clever egg pop-up card for Easter that hides a special surprise: open the flaps, and out pops a fluffy baby chick!

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.