Spruce up some sneakers that have seen better days by turning them into a sparkly dress-up staple.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

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.

Water can go from solid to liquid to gas...but how does popcorn go from kernel to snack? Invite your first grade scientist to find out.

Help young learners discover why catÃs eyes glow in the dark with this simple experiment

Build good first grade reading and writing skills, as well as family peace and quiet, with this hand made story book about mornings in your home.

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

Kids entranced by Little House on the Prairie? This popsicle stick "log cabin" is a great introduction to pioneer history.

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 chocolate covered matzo candy is easy enough for kids to make, with a little parental supervision. A real Passover treat!

This science exploration lets your first grader see how eggs can provide a perfect environment for a living, growing creature.

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

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

Your first grader will gain an understanding of time management as your holiday tasks become manageable, with this to-do list reinvented as an advent calendar!

Preserve some precious memories this Mother's Day! Make a shoe planter out of that old pair of your child's favorite shoes.

Kids will explore the corrosiveness of soda in this cool science fair project by leaving pennies submerged in soda overnight.

Make a Christmas countdown calendar to get your child excited about the coming holiday. This Christmas countdown calendar helps you make holiday memories.

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