This beautiful salad looks like a butterfly and tastes like your favorite vegetables!

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.

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

Your kindergartener will love being able to paint a beautiful butterfly, and the lucky recipient of the finished card will be just as delighted!

These colorful paper butterflies make cute hanging decorations for your child's room, but they can also be used for active play.

Introduce shapes to art projects with this fun Valentine-themed craft.

Here's an adorable kindergarten refrigerator magnet that celebrates the glories of the letter "B" and benefits your early reader.

Craft butterflies from coffee filters in this sweet spring craft project!

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

Children will practice mindfulness through a short guided practice, reflect on the practices that support peace, and then will build a "peace garden."

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

This Valentine's Day craft uses paper hearts of different sizes to create a cuddly puppy your child will love seeing on the wall!

Mobiles make fun art projects for creative kids. Help your child bend simple pipe cleaners into bug shapes as diverse as the creepy crawlies that inspired them.

Let your child set her artistic talent free with an easy, environmentally-friendly bottle cap mosaic.

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

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

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

Help your kindergartener practice counting from one to ten with this fun outdoor activity. Make a "My Backyard Counting Book" to review counting to ten.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

Learn how to make fairy wings with these easy instructions. See how to make fairy wings for Halloween or dress-up time.

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

Help your child build her very own science laboratory at home for experiments and science projects. This is a quick, easy, and fun educational tool!

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

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days