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Transform a paper coffee cup into an adorable Easter bunny gift basket in this second grade arts and crafts activity.

Help your second grader embrace his "green" side by recycling empty citrus peels into fruity ice cream bowls!

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

Looking for a fun way to display photos? Give recycled objects a second life by turning them into a creative photo holder.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by painting the green Irish countryside in this 2nd grade arts and crafts activity.

Give items that usually get tossed in the trash a second life with this green arts and crafts activity for kindergarteners. Make a milk carton train engine!

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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.

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

In this activity, students build a house of sticks, just like the second little pig in the classic story, The Three Little Pigs. Then, they program an educational robot to push down the house, much like the wolf who “blows the house down.”

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.

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.

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

Help your first grader make a coin bank that builds connections to early reading and math. And build good saving habits, too!

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Watch your first grader marvel at how fun and simple it is to turn ordinary potatoes into custom shamrock stamps.

Even your first grader can get involved in the lighting of the Kwanzaa Kinara with this clever flameless Kinara project!

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

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.

Invite your kindergartener or first grader to make giant, soft building blocks. He'll have a blast constructing, throwing, stacking, and even falling on them!

While you whip up mashed potatoes for your next dinner party, your first grader and friends can stay occupied by crafting their own silly spud characters.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

Create your very own scented hand sanitizer that will help your child to keep those nasty germs at bay!

This fun, addition focused take on the classic card game War is a great way to help your child get a strong hold on addition.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

The 100th day of school is an important benchmark for kids in the lower elementary grades. Help your kid create a 100 days of school shirt to celebrate!

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.