Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

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.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Create a sun-shaped summer words chart in this DIY craft activity!

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

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!

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Decorated with glittery spiderwebs that sparkle like dew in the sun, these handmade note cards make great thank you cards or simply "thinking of you" cards.

Have your child imitate the masters or create her own work of art with a bar of soap!

Put old, worn-out picture books to work by constructing a book birdhouse, perfect for welcoming spring.

How many steps long is the hallway? Kids put their graph-making skills to work as they make a step map of their own house.

Here are three easy, budget-friendly ways to preserve your child's work and precious memories without filling up the attic.

The project presents a tactile way to paint using water beads! The result will be a beautiful, expressionistic work of art.

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Stock up on the colorful jelly beans available around Easter and put them to work in a piece of jelly bean art!

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

Save some money this Halloween and work out fine motor skills by helping your child make his very own computer costume.

Tissue Valentine's hearts make great decorations and help your child work out those all-important fine motor skills.

This heart paper chain is the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day. Include some decorations in a simple AB pattern and work on pattern recognition.

First grade math includes lots of work with two-digit numbers. Here's an activity to help kids practice recognizing and sequencing numbers from 1-30.

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

Work with your child's sense of fun by making this interesting snack, where playing with healthy food gets your child eating it

Provide your child with Q-tip paint brushes that are bunched together and easy to grip, and encourage him to go to work on his painting masterpiece!

This caterpillar math game gets your child to work on addition and subtraction. Challenge your child's math prowess with this fast-paced caterpillar math game.

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

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

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.

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

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.