In this activity, your child will develop her sensory awareness and build important math skills while having fun outdoors.

The objectives of this classic game are to toss a marker onto each square, to hop onto the single squares, and to skip the square where the marker landed.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

Make exercise fun for your child with this energetic fitness game that's a cross between a cake walk and musical chairs.

This variation on the game of tag combines exercise, teamwork, and a little friendly trickery.

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

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

Does your child have trouble holding a pencil? Is writing an excruciating task? The key is to build up those hand muscles! This water relay race can help.

Cinnamon is tasty, but does it have super powers as well? Find out if cinnamon can repel mosquitoes in this outdoorsy experiment.

Improve your child's hand-eye coordination with these fun dribbling drills! Before you know it he'll be a ball-handling master.

You don't need to head to the Arctic to experiment with life in an igloo. Learners can build their own ice igloo at home from water and empty milk containers.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

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.

Have the kids use sidewalk chalk to draw portraits of their family and, in the process, learn about familial relationships.

Help your child stay physically and mentally active with this group aerobic fitness game that's good for the heart and mind alike.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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!

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

This variation of Duck, Duck, Goose is played in pairs, which means a lot more activity for participants!

Picnic getting boring? Here's a fun game that gets the kids moving around, and doing a little addition while they're at it.

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

Kids will love this more challenging version of tag where they'll have to run while "attached" to someone else.

Preserve some precious memories this Mother's Day! Make a shoe planter out of that old pair of your child's favorite shoes.

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!