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Making candles from old candles is easy. Recycle old candle stubs to make a "new" candle, and teach your child about recycling at the same time!

Want a fun way to teach your kid to tell time? Making a plate clock is a great way for him to learn how to tell time in a way he'll actually find exciting.

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!

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!

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.

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

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

This competitive inequalities card game is a great way to help your child understand the connection between numerals and the values they represent.

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

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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.

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.

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!

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

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

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.