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

How does dishwashing liquid work? Kids discover the chemical mechanism behind cleansing power in this easy science fair project idea.

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

Who says a party can't be productive? Next time your home is host to a hoard of giggling children, put those creative fingers to use with a party scrapbook!

Your child grows a green thumb and flowers with this seed planting activity that also celebrates the 100th day of school!

This Thanksgiving cornucopia activity will give you a nice homemade table decoration and will give your child a festive reason to read, write, and be thankful.

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

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

This simple game isn't just a diversion, it teaches your child to identify the incorrect word within a familiar verse.

Here's a first grade arts and crafts activity: make pop-up puppets using a plastic cup, wooden dowel, and fabric. Put on a show once you're done!

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!

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

Nothing says party like a bright and bursting piÃata! Create your own mini festive centerpiece with paper towel rolls and ribbons.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

Learn all about colors with the best teachers of all -- cupcakes!

There's something magical about bubbles. Here's a way to turn an old favorite into something new, by ditching that plastic wand for a homemade bubble pipe.

Create your very own colorful stained glass collage Easter egg.

Your child will make her mark on the world with unique homemade ink stamps.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

In this cool science experiment, learn about magnetism and poles, and test magnet strength to find out if two magnets are twice as strong as one.

Be a chemist for a day and study the simple reaction between sugar and heat. Try heating sugar and see what happens!

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.

Choose a destination and "race" your way there! This activity is a great for charting progress and motivation.

Science fair project that determines whether cooling eggs helps them be peeled more easily. Compare the time it took to peel each egg.

In this fun, magical art activity, children paint an invisible picture that is only revealed when covered with watercolors.

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

Your kindergartener will be delighted to refine his motor and conceptual skills as he creates his own Maccabee shield in honor of the Maccabee revolt.

Try making these hand-dipped candles with your child and help bring colonial history to life!