Invite your first grader to play this subtraction sacks game to get her actively involved in understanding and memorizing subtraction facts.

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

What’s the best part of fall? Pumpkins! Use this easy recipe to help your child make some delicious smelling pumpkin play dough. They can use their math skills to measure and mix and then have hours of fun playing!

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.

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

Help your preschooler combine a lesson about numbers with a silly, snowy game of hopscotch.

Improve your child's hand-eye coordination with this outdoor group ball game that's similar to Four Square.

How do people move pianos and heavy furniture into tall buildings? Show your kids some pulley potential with this simple household exercise!

Before hitting the road this summer, arm yourself with Straight Face, a game guaranteed to turn bored frowns into happy grins and giggles.

Here's a hands-on activity that first grade use to help kids get a feel for equations. It uses popsicle sticks to practice addition and subtraction!

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!

Practice problem solving skills with your kindergarten or first grade student in this fun connect-the-dots game!

Help your first grader, second grader, or third grader boost his addition skills and math vocabulary with this fun summer game Ice Cream Addition!

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

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

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

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.

Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

This twist on the same old Hide and Seek is a great weekend or rainy-day activity.

Build this game, and give your kid some hands-on practice ordering numbers. Soon your first grade kid will be Master of the number line!

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

Challenge your budding wordsmith to see how many words he can make out of his own name, using homemade flashcards.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

Using simple materials, children will create a movement card game that the whole family can play together.

Here's a great activity to help learners satisfy their snow play cravings in a cozy indoor setting!

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!