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Transfer your child's artwork onto clothing using an iron-on transfer. It's easier than it sounds, and your child will love wearing his artwork!

In this activity, your child will learn and practice mindfulness by using their senses to focus on one thing at a time.

Take your child outside during winter time and have them observe the leafless trees before having them make a watercolor of a tree or trees using masking tape. They’re sure to love their winter tree painting, plus they make lovely decorations in the home!

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Help your child get the hang of reading with this fun activity. Here's how to make a spinning phonics wheel out of two paper plates.

Learn how to be a bird scientist in this simple project of watching feathered friends in their habitat.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Try this fall-inspired art activity with your child to teach some basic art principles about color, pattern and texture.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Here are two fun, rhythmic jump rope chants to help your first grader learn the days of the week, practice reading skills, and stay fit!

Your first grader will improve her fine motor skills as she designs her own drum set with recycled household objects and art supplies!

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

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

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.

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.