This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

Here's a science activity that lets a first grader use an empty dish detergent bottle to create his own fountain as he explores air pressure.

Making gift bags for a Halloween party or tricker-treaters is a great way for your child to learn a bit about geometry and origami!

Let your child be a designer for the day with this first grade arts and crafts activity: make a felt pillow decorated with colorful felt cut-outs.

How goofy can your first grader get? Show her how to use balloons and yarn to craft a collection of silly faces!

Instead of painting a picture of a whale, let your preschooler make their own whale toy using a paper bag and some recycled art supplies.

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

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.

Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

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.

Here's a St. Patrick's Day card your child can make, write, and give. Great learning and lots of fun--a "lucky" combination for a lucky holiday!

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

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

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.

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

Your first or second grader will delight in creating multi-colored confetti egg smashers, traditional in Mexico, called cascarones!

This nutcracker soldier won't crack any nuts, but he will hide candies. Make a nutcracker soldier with your child this Christmas and have a cracking good time.

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

Help your second grader make his own badminton set--out of your old pantyhose! He'll delight in his crafty independence, and you'll love saving money.

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.

In this cool engineering science fair project, kids learn how to build Hero's engine: an enlightening example of Newton's third law.

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