Homemade Christmas crackers add some bang to your holiday celebration. Make a set of homemade Christmas crackers with your child this holiday season.

Introduce your first grader to our country's most famous leaders with an artsy info board full of facts, patriotic colors and coins!

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will learn about emotions and how they change, just like many parts of nature. Then they will spend time outside, exploring and reflecting on what they have learned.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

Do you think you could walk around upside down -- with your feet in the air and your head on the ground?

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Make quick sweet and salty walnuts, a delicious addition to fall salads and fruit and nut plates, or a simple afternoon snack.

Silent "e" words are a big part of first grade phonics. Help them turn words like "hop" to "hope" in this action-packed, practical game.

This simple heat transfer experiment is a great introduction to the concepts of heat transfer and conduction.

Make your own Matryoshka out of simple craft materials in this easy how-to!

Children will practice mindfulness through a short guided practice, reflect on the practices that support peace, and then will build a "peace garden."

The power of gratitude is endless! Research shows that cultivating a gratitude practice can gratitude strengthen relationships, improve physical and emotional well-being, deepen empathy skills, and improve self-esteem. With such wide-spread benefits, how

In this project, a basketball containing different psi is dropped to see how well it bounces.

Learn Halloween fun facts and put them in this cool art project. Make a Halloween fun facts foldable with your child this October.

Your child will rule his kingdom in style with this regal Pharaoh's head cloth, called a "nemes."

Measuring and mixing is half the fun with these Irish oatmeal cookies, and it's a great way to introduce your second grader to cooking and kitchen tools.

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

This is a fun way to introduce kids to the concept of volume, and give them a quick hands-on activity to boot.

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!

Challenge your budding wordsmith to see how many words he can make out of his own name, using homemade flashcards.

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.

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.

Practice measurement and proportion with your first grader, and in the process, make three scrumptious salads for you and your child to share on Mother's Day!

Jazz up your patio or backyard with hip and quirky planters made from simple Mason jars.

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

Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.

Take the classic game to a new level, by including super fun directions inside the chalk-drawn boxes.

Button art gets your child to make a pretty silhouette out of buttons. Make button art on Valentine's Day and any craft-filled day you'd like.

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!