First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

Learn about coins and their value by making an animal piggy bank. Here's how to make a lion, pig, or sheep bank!

Help your curious kid cut through the clutter and collect the facts with a simple and fun science foldable.

Teach your young academic about counting and clocks with a tasty treat!

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.

Make math fun for your child by turning it into a game and challenging him to beat the calculator with this cool math race!

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

If you're looking for a fun way to have your child gain practice pattern-making while working out fine motor skills, making Washi eggs is the perfect activity.

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

Use empty soda bottles to create a fun bowling set that helps your first grader practice addition skills!

Using just an egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.

This pumpkin dessert recipe tastes like pie but looks like a no-bake cookie.

Inspired by the children's book, Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, this card brings the spunky spider Charlotte to life!

Pfeffernusse are spicy and sweet Christmas cookies from Germany. Make a batch of traditional pfeffernusse this holiday season.

Recycle old materials to create a fun, brain-teasing maze toy that also strengthens your child's math reasoning skills.

Help your child "step up" to second grade math fact challenges with a fun addition and subtraction game in your very own kitchen.

This activity will put those Halloween treats to good use by using candy corn to help your child with her subtraction skills.

Here's a hands-on activity that first grade use to help kids get a feel for equations. It uses popsicle sticks to practice addition and subtraction!

Have your kid practice completing number patterns and then create her own patterns on the wings of a butterfly with this delightfully simple paper project.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

This first grade science activity is great for winter! Your child will grow and observe her own amaryllis bulb, keeping a journal of her scientific findings.

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

Play this fun game with your kindergarten or first grader. It's a great way to practice important math skills, including counting and addition.

Make a fun refrigerator graph with your first grader in order to help her develop those crucial graphing skills, while engaging with the whole family.

This measurement activity uses feet to compare objects, but not the ones found on rulers and measuring sticks...the feet on your child's own body!

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!