Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

Here's an arts and crafts activity that has your first-grader or second-grader using crayons and black paint to create a beautiful wax-resist nightscape.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

This hands-on activity practices skip counting, a key first grade math skill. But it's silly fun!

Enjoy the beauty of winter from the comfort of your home with this first grade art activity: make sparkly snowflake sculptures using modeling clay and glitter.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Your first grader can create this cute heart puzzle with craft sticks and watercolor paints to challenge her friends!

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

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

Transform a single sheet of card stock into a double-sided painting of opposites: on one side, a bright daytime landscape, on the other, a dusky evening scene.

Help your first grader emboss his own design reminiscent of Middle Ages metalwork. Using foil and a wooden stylus, he'll create pretty springtime flower images.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by painting the green Irish countryside in this 2nd grade arts and crafts activity.

What would it be like to be the Cat in the Hat from the famous Dr. Seuss book? This Read Across America project has your 1st grader making his own fun-in-a-box!

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Your child can emulate M.C. Escher with this hands-on art project for fall and Thanksgiving.

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

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

Let your child help you create a fire escape plan poster to hang in the house in case of an emergency!

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

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!

In this activity, kids use sponges to make textured stamps for homemade, artistic Valentine's Day cards.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!