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.

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.

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!

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.

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

Here's a simple math activity that has your child using her basic addition facts to solve a secret code.

Weave a unique ribbon pattern! This fun arts and crafts activity is a great way to make colorful projects and learn basic math and art skills.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Get your child excited about measuring with this fun and easy household measurements activity.

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!

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!

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

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!

Help your child practice symmetry with this fun activity that will leave your child with a sweet symmetrical treat!

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

These cute holly-shaped hair clips are a breeze to make for holiday celebrations. They make a great party activity, too!

This first grade science activity is great for winter! Your child will grow and observe her own amaryllis bulb, keeping a journal of her scientific findings.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

This countdown to Christmas craft is fun for kids who are excited for the holiday. Countdown to Christmas with this fun holiday activity.

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.

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Make a fun refrigerator graph with your first grader in order to help her develop those crucial graphing skills, while engaging with the whole family.

Use empty soda bottles to create a fun bowling set that helps your first grader practice addition skills!

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.