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 preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

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

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

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

Find sums of 10 in this fun first-grade math card game that helps kids build addition skills. Help your child use critical thinking skills to find the sums.

Celebrate 100 fantastic days of school by creating a school-themed collage with 100 pieces in this unique arts and crafts activity.

Finding the greatest number is great math practice! This strategic card game will help reinforce the concept of number value as well as addition facts.

Want to make math a little more exciting? This single-player game is designed to help your child practice combining cards to create sums of 14.

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

In kindergarten, your child spent lots of time counting things one by one. But in first grade, he'll need to be able to count in groups, especially by fives.

Head out to the driveway, ball in hand, for a bouncing challenge. Then use those results to make a colorful graph that lets your child compare results.

This first grade addition math game helps your child use critical thinking skills while practicing his computation.

A food groups plate shows your child what category her foods belong in. Make a food groups plate with your child before dinnertime.

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.

Celebrate Easter, or just about any day, with a candy necklace. Grab your favorite candies, a string of yarn and get ready to make a yummy, colorful treat!

Lunch is always better when you share it with a wise companion This wide-eyed owl craft is a great way for your growing learner to practice cutting shapes.

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.

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

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!

Does your kid have a stash of sweets left over from Halloween? Turn that pile of candy into a learning opportunity with this sorting and categorizing activity.

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

First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

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

Big bags hold a lot of candy, but they're hard to tote around. Have your kid construct a candy corn candy holder perfect for carrying a few lightweight treats.

This unique Santa is made only from circles. Your little one will have a fantastic time puzzling together Santa's face with this circle-centric activity.

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.

Your child will "catch" snowballs with each correct math equation she can answer correctly. If she solves a problem correctly, she gets to keep the snowballs.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Combine art, history and food with this unique project! Your child will make her own butters, and learn a little about Colonial history at the same time