For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Here's a math game for your preschooler or kindergartener that'll make number recognition as easy as a pizza pie!

Weave a unique ribbon pattern! This fun arts and crafts activity is a great way to make colorful projects and learn basic math and art skills.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

How many steps long is the hallway? Kids put their graph-making skills to work as they make a step map of their own house.

Combine art, history and food with this unique project! Your child will make her own butters, and learn a little about Colonial history at the same time

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

Learn how to make a paper snowflake with these simple instructions. Help your child learn how to make a paper snowflake with only paper and scissors.

Challenge your 1st grader to skip count with this sequence game. Help him find missing numbers by figuring out the pattern and building on math skills!

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

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

Make an edible bracelet from Froot Loops and a shoelace! This Block Institute art activity will engage your special needs or mainstream child at snacktime.

These cute holly-shaped hair clips are a breeze to make for holiday celebrations. They make a great party activity, too!

Do a little kitchen chemistry as you make your own bubble solution and bubble-wand shapes!

Encourage imagination and creativity with this magical craft that lets your child make and design his very own dragon egg.

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.

This heart paper chain is the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day. Include some decorations in a simple AB pattern and work on pattern recognition.

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

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

Make a brag sash with your child to celebrate an amazing school year filled with accomplishments.

Thousands of witches that come out to celebrate Halloween. Now, your child can make her very own self-standing witch.

This flannel board will give your child hands-on practice with math, but in a fun format, full of ladybugs.

Create a counting book, in order from 1-30, to help your child figure out a variety of ways of recognizing and representing numbers.

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

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

Teach your child about jesters as she makes her very own jester hat.

Help your kindergartener practice his shape recognition and develop his fine motor skills by making a scarecrow at home.

Have a lot of loose buttons lying around the house? Here are four ways to turn those loose buttons into an easy and positive learning experience. Button up!

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.