Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

Kids can jazz up their checker sets by transforming boring round checker pieces into baby chicks and eggs in this 1st grade arts and crafts activity.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

Most kids love to play spy. Here's a way to have fun with mysterious codes while mastering an ordinary, necessary skill: first grade spelling.

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Craft a patriotic placemat from red, white, and blue construction paper in this festive craft project!

Use this fun math board game to improve your first grader's confidence with addition facts.

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

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

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!

Plants need water to grow. In this project we learn how plants transport water from their roots to their leaves

Here is an activity that your kids can make for Mother's Day, a garden pot filled with edible "flowers".

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

Play this fun game with your kindergarten or first grader. It's a great way to practice important math skills, including counting and addition.

This measurement activity uses feet to compare objects, but not the ones found on rulers and measuring sticks...the feet on your child's own body!

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

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!

Practice measurement and proportion with your first grader, and in the process, make three scrumptious salads for you and your child to share on Mother's Day!

Use these pretty egg carton flowers to decorate a spring table. They don't require water, they'll never wilt, and they're perfect for Easter.

The objective of this science fair project is to investigate salt water density.

Looking for a cool game to help your first grader learn her 11s? Look no further than this clever one-person card game.

Encourage your child to learn about the Japanese culture as you make a traditional Japanese fan out of paper.

Boost fine motor skills and get in the spirit of fall with this fun wreath-making project.