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This first grade addition math game helps your child use critical thinking skills while practicing his computation.

Find sums of 10 in this fun first-grade math card game that helps kids build addition skills. Help your child use critical thinking skills to find the sums.

Here is a way to help your first grader keep track of the books she has read, and also help her develop some critical thinking skills.

Checkerboard play challenges students to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking.

This arts and crafts activity explores triptych painting while encouraging your preschooler to increase critical sequencing and early literacy skills.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

In this activity, your child will learn the benefits of positive thinking. They will write positive statements about themselves and create a gratitude board.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

Play Rock Tic-Tac-Toe, the perfect outdoor game for all ages. Help your child develop thinking skills and get away from the TV!

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.

Decorated with glittery spiderwebs that sparkle like dew in the sun, these handmade note cards make great thank you cards or simply "thinking of you" cards.

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.

A homemade coat of arms is a great way to get your child thinking about your family's values, and it makes a fun addition to the costume box as well!

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

In this activity, your child will be given images that portray different perspectives or emotions. Your child will practice empathy by coloring and drawing what each person may have been thinking or feeling.

Practice problem solving skills with your kindergarten or first grade student in this fun connect-the-dots game!

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

This zany guessing game asks your first grader to tap into her deductive reasoning skills to guess an activity or object.

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.

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

Give items that usually get tossed in the trash a second life with this green arts and crafts activity for kindergarteners. Make a milk carton train engine!

Is your kindergartener having trouble picking outfits for the rapidly cooling weather? This handy dressing wheel makes getting ready a breeze!

In this activity, your child will use household objects to sculpt his very own football.

First grade science often covers solids, liquids, and gases. This silly science explores serious facts about the difference between all three.

Not sure what to do with all of those leftover boxes from holiday gifts? Tap into your crafty side by creating an adorable snow person with your child. This activity is sure to bring smiles to those who pass your yard or come into your home all season lon

This activity encourages children to sculpt in free form. The only rule is that they have to build upwards.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!