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Kids can jazz up their checker sets by transforming boring round checker pieces into baby chicks and eggs in this 1st grade arts and crafts activity.

Bring barnyard fun to a rainy day by making this simple pig nose, or make several noses and round up two of your child's friends to act out Three Little Pigs.

The 100th day of school is an important benchmark for kids in the lower elementary grades. Help your kid create a 100 days of school shirt to celebrate!

Let your preschooler play with her food by making snack logs out of celery, peanut butter and corn flakes.

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

If your young child is a kinesthetic learner, this equation board is perfect for teaching him addition and subtraction facts.

These frozen banana pops are an essential summer treat! They are simple for young children to make, and so tasty they are sure to be a hit.

Make a festive bunny box that will be great for gift giving or storing candy and other small objects.

Help your child practice her counting as she makes this fun and festive holiday decoration!

Let your child lend a helping hand while decorating the Christmas tree this year! This festive activity doubles as a lesson focusing on the number five.

Make candy hearts this Valentine's Day. This heart-y project helps your little one practice handwriting skills and encourages creativity.

Compare and order numbers and introduce mathematical inequalities in this fun math card game.

Use egg cartons to create imaginative spiders the kids will treasure.

Encourage your child to help make dinner special this holiday season! If your child is loves to help in the kitchen, this is a great activity. They will build mini-penguins to enjoy while waiting for dinner!

This fun art project is a great way to introduce your child to some basic geometry.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

This activity will keep your child entertained long after you've put away the markers and glue. Help him turn a paper bag into a self-portrait puppet!

What do worms eat? Kids find out what kinds of rotting leaves and vegetables worms prefer in this cool compost science fair project.

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

Get in the Halloween spirit with these simple, silly bat decorations!

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.

Let your child be a designer for the day with this first grade arts and crafts activity: make a felt pillow decorated with colorful felt cut-outs.

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.

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

Learn how to make vampire fangs for Halloween costumes and for scary playtime. See how to make vampire fangs with this great upcycled tutorial.

This fun craft is perfect to do in the spring, and opens up the opportunity to teach your child about birds.

In this activity, your child will learn how to spruce up her bike with an original license plate!

This butterfly costume comes together in under an hour and is perfect for your little trick-or-treater. Make this butterfly costume for Halloween or play time.

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.