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.

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.

Kids can jazz up their checker sets by transforming boring round checker pieces into baby chicks and eggs in this 1st grade arts and crafts activity.

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

Geared toward kindergarten and first grade learners, The Weather Inside is a fun activity to help help children understand and process their emotions in a healthy way.

Your 1st grade scientist will improve her observation skills as she's encouraged to eat healthy by comparing the dry and fresh fruit in this experiment.

Bring the zoo to you with this fun second grade arts and crafts activity: make a mini menagerie using colored pipe cleaners, a pencil and marker, and eyes!

Make counting coins make "cents" to your second grader while giving her the chance to practice her math skills by playing this fun game with her.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Build your child's math skills with this 2nd-3rd grade activity. Similar to a carnival toss, this egg carton toss game is sure to provide hours of fun.

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!

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

Help your child learn about the world through this 3rd-4th grade geography activity: start a postcard collection and mark where they came from on a world map.

The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Celebrate the 100th day of school by creating a geometric, math-inspired mural in the style of Henri Matisse in this creative kindergarten grade art activity.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Air invisible; it doesn't make sounds; you can't pick it up and throw it. So how do we know it exists? Help your second grade scientist figure it out.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Here's a brain-challenging treasure hunt for your third grader, calling upon math skills with money and with decimals!

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

Help your first grader, second grader, or third grader boost his addition skills and math vocabulary with this fun summer game Ice Cream Addition!

Help your third grader make the Scoop 'N Catch--a great choice for a fun and inexpensive afternoon.

First graders will love practicing addition with this fun math game.

This fun math card game is a great opportunity to discuss probability with your third grader.

Help your own young scientist tackle the wonders of static electricity from the comfort of his own home!

Practice conversions within the metric system in this fun math card game for third graders.

Master reading numbers aloud with your first grader in this math card game.