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

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Bake these delicious Crisco Cookies with your child this holiday season to give as gifts to friends and family.

Blend homework time with playtime by introducing a cast of colorful characters to the top of your child's pens and pencils.

Make a "feeling meter" that helps your first grader read key feeling words and communicate his emotions accurately to you.

Find sums of 10 in this fun first-grade math card game that helps kids build addition skills. Help your child use critical thinking skills to find the sums.

Make a campfire crown, complete with roasted marshmallows!

In this activity, your child will be challenged to build a tall tower out of building bricks! The instructions include questions prompts to guide students through the design challenge.

Teach your child how to make a Georgia O'Keefe flower collage using pasta and paint for a fun art activity.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

Make vibrant faux stained glass art inspired by the art of Piet Mondrian, a Dutch painter who explored repeating shapes using the primary colors.

Prepare for school the washi tape way with some washi tape school supplies!

Mason jar lights add a bit of holiday sparkle to a bland patio or dinner table. Make some mason jar lights to add to your collection of Christmas decorations.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!

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

Your first grader will love showcasing his favorite pieces of art with his very own personalized magnets created from old bottle caps!

Learn how to be a bird scientist in this simple project of watching feathered friends in their habitat.

This easy apple cider adds cinnamon candies to give it a spicy kick for Valentine's Day.

These spooky eyeballs are simple enough for kids to make, and featur carrots, olives and cream cheese for a nutritious nosh.

Turkey cupcakes are quirky fowl-themed desserts that bring extra cheer to your Thanksgiving meal. Make turkey cupcakes that your kids will want to gobble up.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

Try this card game to build math fact skills, like addition and subtraction, and have a great time, too!

Here's a perfect way to share Halloween treats: black cat candy cones! They are great for parties, decoration or sharing the plunder of trick-or-treat.

Halloween wouldn't be complete without a creepy paper hand with spider and eyeball rings to help decorate a haunted house!

Learn Halloween fun facts and put them in this cool art project. Make a Halloween fun facts foldable with your child this October.

Remind your child of all the things that go bump, bump in the night with a fun post-Halloween activity.

In this activity, your child will use household objects to sculpt his very own football.

This lucky cake makes the perfect hideout for leprechaun treasure.