Keep school day sniffles at bay with a simple felt tissue cozy that fits neatly in a 3-ring binder.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Science fair project which determines whether the size or the thickness of a piece of paper has an effect on how many times it can be folded in half.

Your first grader will love telling time while playing this fun game of tag! Ask Captain Midnight for the time, but watch out when his watch says "midnight"!

In this activity, your child will learn about the different parts of the brain and how mindfulness can build connections of calm.

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

Children learn about the benefits of mindfulness, teach someone else what they've learned, and create a sand timer to use during mindfulness practice.

Have your child create a little leprechaun to celebrate the season and create a little mischief.

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.

Learn about dehydration with a wonderful craft project that you can do together, and enjoy this unique doll for years to come!

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.

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!

Make mom feel like the star that she truly is by holding a movie premiere in her honor, complete with red carpet!

In this activity you and your child will learn about the African Americans that changed history in a fun quiz format.

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

Chinese New Year is a time when many different luck-bringing rituals are performed. In this activity your child will create a lucky trinket.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

The purpose of this science fair project is to explore whether UV light passes through some colors and not others by looking at blue, red, purple, and clear.

This hands-on activity gets first grade kids brainstorming about what needs change in the world, and how they can help.

This fun art activity will get your child's creative juices flowing and will teach her about shapes, pattern and texture along the way.

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

This science activity will help your student explore the changes that occur to transform an egg from raw to soft to hard-boiled.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

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.

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

Test your friends to find out if you can replicate the placebo effect's incredible results.

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.