Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

Are you ready to be a detective for science? Then get out your magnifying glass and start studying fingerprints!

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.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

In this activity, your child will explore the differences between facts and opinions. Together, you will go on a scavenger hunt in your home and play the role of detectives in search of facts.

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

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

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Pizza for breakfast? Celebrate Father's Day with a fun filled cooking treat.

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

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

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

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

Play this homophone game with your child the next time you sit down with them to read a story and help them build some valuable reading skills.

Use a basic tape recorder and some favorite books to help your first grader read smoothly--and make someone's day in the process!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

Transform a simple menu into a work of art! Let your child unleash her inner artist on tonight's menu for a beautiful display that the whole family can enjoy.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

Have the children play a more active role in the Seder by helping them prepare paper puppets that represent the ten plagues.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

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

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Here are three easy, budget-friendly ways to preserve your child's work and precious memories without filling up the attic.