Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Encourage your child's inner architect with a shoebox creation that he can craft into his dream house, mansion or palace.

Delight your second grader (and his best friend!) by showing him how to make a friendship collage jar project for someone special this holiday season.

Encourage your child to practice skip counting by turning number patterns into this fun and interactive game of catch.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will listen to their favorite song and explore how it makes them feel. Then, together you will craft your own cardboard radio!

Make a mood meter with your child to help them recognize and share their feelings.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

Can you dig it? This science experiment isn't for kids who like to keep their hands clean.

Find out whether soil amendments can improve soil conditions and help you grow a bigger beanstalk in this ecology experiment!

Water can go from solid to liquid to gas...but how does popcorn go from kernel to snack? Invite your first grade scientist to find out.

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

This competitive inequalities card game is a great way to help your child understand the connection between numerals and the values they represent.

Teach your first grade scientist the difference between liquids and solids using maple syrup.

Give mom a thoughtful gift this Mother's Day by making a photo collage of her life! This is a great way for your child to practice some basic math skills too!

Take a page from Art Nouveau master Gustav Klimt and compose a shining collage.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Make cupid's arrow with your little one this Valentine's Day. It's a quick and easy craft that's the perfect alternative to candy-giving.

Give your kid a go at making art like master painter Michelangelo did on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel...by making her own colorful angel!

With Halloween right around the corner, find a way to use your brain and reward your tummy with a new type of science -- candy science!

Sweet corn muffins are a delicious and unexpected Valentine's Day treat. Make a batch of sweet corn muffins with a hidden surprise this Valentine's Day.

Boost fine motor skills and get in the spirit of fall with this fun wreath-making project.

How many steps long is the hallway? Kids put their graph-making skills to work as they make a step map of their own house.

This activity creatively guides students in reflecting on and understanding what's happening inside of themselves at any given point.

Introduce your child to the amazing, almost magical phenomenon of static electricity!

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!