Make these simple homemade New Year's gifts with your child this holiday season to give to friends and family, each with a special message inside.

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

Every day can be Chinese New Year with a dancing dragon that your child can make at home.

This colorful garland can be strung across a fireplace and remind you of your blessings well into the new year.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

Shake those dice and try to roll big numbers in this first grade math game. Practice addition in a new, fun way!

Your child can re-use and re-purpose old seeds and paper into something new: decorated paper that can be planted!

In this activity, your child will create a red envelope that can be filled with money to spread good will and ward off evil spirits in the New Year.

Celebrate the new year by making a memory book with your child! You'll reinforce time and calendar concepts and you'll get to reminisce about the past year.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!

Tell the Purim story in a new way: By making a set of puppets out of an old deck of cards!

With Halloween right around the corner, find a way to use your brain and reward your tummy with a new type of science -- candy science!

Making candles from old candles is easy. Recycle old candle stubs to make a "new" candle, and teach your child about recycling at the same time!

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

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!

Practice addition with your child in a whole new way when you battle to defend your cards in this competitive game. Math has never been so fun!

Make “teal the new orange” this Halloween season! Help your child learn about the Teal Pumpkin Project and paint the color teal on a pumpkin to advertise that your family will offer non-food toys as a treat, or “trinket” option.

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

This beautiful salad looks like a butterfly and tastes like your favorite vegetables!

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

Shed some "light" on the Chinese culture while brightening up your home. Teach your child the Chinese character for good luck with this lantern craft.

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

Celebrate the blooming season with your kid by showing him how to make a magical spring mosaic out of all natural materials!

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

The objective of this science project is to determine the length of time for different seeds to germinate.

Develop your child's mathematical and engineering skills with this fun building brick challenge. In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create a boat out of building bricks.

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

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.