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.

Bring a swell of high sea adventure to your own living room with this quick and easy paper sailboat craft!

This science exploration lets your first grader see how eggs can provide a perfect environment for a living, growing creature.

Made entirely out of recycled materials, this handmade decoration is a great way to spruce up a dresser, bookshelf, or the living room mantle.

This Where the Wild Things Are costume will make your little wild thing look just like Max. This Where the Wild Things Are costume is surprisingly easy to make.

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

This science fair project will help students learn about non-vascular plants, such as mosses.

In this activity, your child will have an opportunity to discuss what they like about themselves, and they will design a digital or physical poster that displays their talents, what they like, and images that describe themselves.

Science fair project that develops latent fingerprints on a non-porous objects by converting superglue from a solid state to a gaseous state.

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

Make “teal the new orange” this Halloween season! Help your child learn about the Teal Pumpkin Project and paint the color teal on a pumpkin to advertise that your family will offer non-food toys as a treat, or “trinket” option.

In this lesson, your child will reflect on, draw, and collect things that make them feel happy and peaceful.

Teach your little one to appreciate all the best things in life with a keepsake Thanksgiving plate.

Remind your child of all the things that go bump, bump in the night with a fun post-Halloween activity.

This Christmas plate features your child's favorite holiday things through drawings. Make a Christmas plate with your child this holiday season.

Help your first grader understand what a noun is with this fun photo book that catalogs her favorite people, places, and things!

Your child can use colorful construction paper to make an easy paper basket to hold some of his special things!

In this activity, students will draw a picture of the things they like to listen to at home using their superpower sense of mindful listening.

Shake things up by introducing your child to charcoal pencils! These unique drawing tools make blending, shading, and smudging easy and fun.

A thankful turkey helps your child think about on the things that he's thankful for. Make this turkey craft with your child for Thanksgiving.

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.

This fun marbled paper craft uses things you're likely to have around your house, and it teaches kids some simple chemistry too!

Why not change things up a bit with this fun way of making those loop-hole bunny ears that sit at the top of his sneakers.

In this activity, you and your child will watch a video and learn how the brain easily remembers negative information, but not always positive. You will practice positivity by writing or drawing pictures of 10 positive things that happened today.

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

In kindergarten, your child spent lots of time counting things one by one. But in first grade, he'll need to be able to count in groups, especially by fives.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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 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.

Learn about nature by making your own mini moss garden.