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.

Kids can jazz up their checker sets by transforming boring round checker pieces into baby chicks and eggs in this 1st grade arts and crafts activity.

Water can go from solid to liquid to gas...but how does popcorn go from kernel to snack? Invite your first grade scientist to find out.

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

Geared toward kindergarten and first grade learners, The Weather Inside is a fun activity to help help children understand and process their emotions in a healthy way.

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

This fall, bake some festive caramel apple cupcakes with your second grader and help her build her math skills while you're at it!

Help your third grader practice his writing skills and learn to operate household appliances like the washing machine or DVR with this Family How-to guide!

The Math Monster will save your second grader from repetitive math flashcards. Guessing mystery math facts is a fun way for him to polish arithmetic skills!

Your first grader will improve her fine motor skills as she designs her own drum set with recycled household objects and art supplies!

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

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.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

Help your child learn about the world through this 3rd-4th grade geography activity: start a postcard collection and mark where they came from on a world map.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

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.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

This craft, a perfect pre-bedtime activity for a first sleepover, helps build up a ton of useful skills, like geometry, measurement, and basic sewing skills.

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.

The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Air invisible; it doesn't make sounds; you can't pick it up and throw it. So how do we know it exists? Help your second grade scientist figure it out.

If your first grader has a hard time practicing his vocabulary skills, introduce him to this fun word building game.

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

Help to build your child's reading skills and get your point across with these homemade message magnets!

Here is a way to help your first grader keep track of the books she has read, and also help her develop some critical thinking skills.

Make a phonics paper egg to help your child build up his reading and writing skills.

Here's an Easter themed math game to reinforce your child's logical reasoning and place value skills.

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