For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Help your curious kid cut through the clutter and collect the facts with a simple and fun science foldable.

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

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.

Learn how to make a paper snowflake with these simple instructions. Help your child learn how to make a paper snowflake with only paper and scissors.

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.

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

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

Looking for a cool game to help your first grader learn her 11s? Look no further than this clever one-person card game.

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

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.

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.

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

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!

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

Learn about borrowing in subtraction using a deck of cards and a die! Your first grader will have fun playing this math game.

This hands-on activity practices skip counting, a key first grade math skill. But it's silly fun!

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.

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.

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.

A hands-on guessing game that teaches kids to recognize different coins. First graders will learn their money and their math at the same time!

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.

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!

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

Try this card game to build math fact skills, like addition and subtraction, and have a great time, too!

Your first grader will love this addition challenge! Roll dice and keep a running total as you try to achieve the highest score.

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

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!