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Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

Support your first grader's interest in reading with this decorative bookmark that illustrates a favorite scene from a loved book.

Make this paper chain calendar and give your child a visual reminder of the passing of time.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Help children understand the power of germs and the importance of hand washing with this visual activity that introduces the concept of scientific inquiry.

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

Help motivate your child to become a more avid and consistent reader by creating a train-themed reading chart that can serve as a visual reminder of their progress.

The Kindergarten Personal Record Book makes measurement fun & active! Kids record their vital statistics from head to toe using unusual tools like paper clips.

Not only is homemade wrapping paper pretty, but by experimenting with decorative tools, kids are also doing science, art, and small-motor muscle building.

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.

Our breath is supporting us all of the time, but sometimes we don't even know it! In this activity, your child will discuss how they feel when they focus on their breath and learn tools to help them feel calm and at ease.

In this project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables

Show your child how to spell their name in a whole new way with this sculptural 3-D art project.

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

Enjoy the beauty of winter from the comfort of your home with this first grade art activity: make sparkly snowflake sculptures using modeling clay and glitter.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Make this dragon relief with your first grader to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and teach her about an important part of Chinese culture.

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.

Encourage your child to help with dinner preparations this holiday season! You can use this recipe for Christmas dinner or lunch, or for meals leading up to the holiday. This Christmas Wreath Salad recipe is simple enough for preschoolers to fifth graders

These bean bag games are a fun and inexpensive way to keep your first grader learning! Work on social skills, coordination, math, or even spelling!

Have your kid create a chart of job titles. It's a great way to get them to recognize the people whose efforts benefit the community.

Challenge your kid's creativity with a fun fall art project that features you as the collaborator.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

Your child can commemorate the best Halloween candy of all time using foam sheets to give your little monster a little practice tracing triangular shapes.

In this activity, your child will discuss how to stand up for others, and they'll use pipe cleaners to design a symbol that reminds them to stand up for others.

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Catch the dance mash fever with this catchy and foot-tapping activity that's all about movement and Halloween fun!

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!