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.

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.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

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.

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

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

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.

Challenge your 1st grader to skip count with this sequence game. Help him find missing numbers by figuring out the pattern and building on math skills!

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

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.

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.

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

Thousands of witches that come out to celebrate Halloween. Now, your child can make her very own self-standing witch.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

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

This Halloween math activity book is a whole lot of fun.

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.

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.

Show your kindergartener how to count to 100 by tens, and he'll get an adorable cheerio necklace in the process!

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.

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 measurement activity uses feet to compare objects, but not the ones found on rulers and measuring sticks...the feet on your child's own body!

This Christmas plate features your child's favorite holiday things through drawings. Make a Christmas plate with your child this holiday season.

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.

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!

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.

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

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!

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

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