This activity will keep your child entertained long after you've put away the markers and glue. Help him turn a paper bag into a self-portrait puppet!

Make a paper plate puppet that'll help your child imagine what it's like to be in a performance of the dragon dance.

Here's a first grade arts and crafts activity: make pop-up puppets using a plastic cup, wooden dowel, and fabric. Put on a show once you're done!

Finger puppets encourage creative play, communication, and they give you a great way to share the Passover story with your kids.

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.

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

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

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

Even your first grader can get involved in the lighting of the Kwanzaa Kinara with this clever flameless Kinara project!

Watch the pop of complementary colors while creating a fun and beautiful collage you can create from magazine clippings.

Using just an egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.

This science fair project idea explores how length affects the weight a bridge can hold.

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

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

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.

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

This experiment challenges students to forecast the weather based on the surrounding areas' weather.

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

Pumpkin carving party activities are great for a pre-Halloween party. Try pumpkin carving party activities, including jack-o'-lantern ideas and fall recipes.