Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Try this fun math card game with your third grader to practice division, addition, and problem solving!

An "I Love You" book is a perfect gift for a very special friend on Valentine's Day. Our "I Love You" book shares the love in eight different languages.

Help your child create his own pinata in this fun and easy activity. Use paper mache and fingerpaint for a party pinata everyone will love.

How does smell affect taste? Ready your taste buds--in this project, you'll gather some test subjects and do a taste test to see how much smell affects taste.

Learners can hone their cutting skills while making this patriotically festive star collage!

Your second grader can honor two renowned U.S. Presidents--Abraham Lincoln and George Washington--by crafting larger-than-life pennies and quarters!

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

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

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.

This activity is a craft project and a math workshop all in one! Use found objects to encourage your child to imitate, extend, and create patterns.

Discover the science behind materials that absorb heat, and materials that don't, by constructing this cork trivet for your dinner table.

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

This Earth Day, create an adorable litter bug while learning about the importance of recycling.

Why doesn't the ocean freeze? Students answer this question by simulating the chemical composition and temperature of arctic waters in their own home.

Transform your kitchen table into a winter wonderland with a cookie and cocoa party that looks freshly dusted with snow.

Provide your child with Q-tip paint brushes that are bunched together and easy to grip, and encourage him to go to work on his painting masterpiece!

This simple and fun project introduces kids to the art of pottery and offers them a glimpse into how ancient peoples created the very first Neolithic pottery.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a rainbow card filled with three dimensional four leaf clovers!

Making your own glass cleaner is easy, effective and inexpensive!

Make your own dreidel from modeling clay with this Hannukah craft activity!

Here's a first grade arts and crafts activity: make pop-up puppets using a plastic cup, wooden dowel, and fabric. Put on a show once you're done!

Have your kid create DIY abstract art Easter decorations worthy of a spot at the Smithsonian!

Valentine bookmarks make reading lovely. Make a valentine bookmark that looks like a heart-filled bookworm.

This science fair project idea investigates how optical distances change the apparent size of an object as seen through a magnifying lens.

Your child can decorate her own set of Russian nesting dolls in this easy felt craft.

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.

These DIY coasters are an easy-peasy, activity for small hands to manage, and a good way to get ready for summer, when cold drinks abound.

Enjoy some autumn fun, and develop measurement skills with this sweet-smelling fall art project.

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.