In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

Learn about borrowing in subtraction using a deck of cards and a die! Your first grader will have fun playing this math game.

Make Hanukkah gift bags with your child this holiday season. These Hanukkah gift bags are great for passing out gelt to teachers and friends.

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.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Help your child discover the difference between his wants and needs using this poster.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Get your first grader to help you with scrapbooking by showing him how to use multiple envelopes to create an accordion-style photo book.

Is our water polluted? Help your young scientist understand the importance of taking care of the environment with this simple experiment.

Using paper plates, have the kids make these fun animal masks and your house will be transformed into a jungle.

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!

Using water, corn syrup, and sequins, your child can create a unique art project while exploring what happens when different liquids are mixed together!

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

Shed some "light" on the Chinese culture while brightening up your home. Teach your child the Chinese character for good luck with this lantern craft.

Invite your kid to create her own hanging dove images--a symbol of peace and unity--in honor of Black History Month.

Not only is homemade wrapping paper pretty, but by experimenting with decorative tools, kids are also doing science, art, and small-motor muscle building.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

A hands-on guessing game that teaches kids to recognize different coins. First graders will learn their money and their math at the same time!

Make going back to school fun with this surprising pop up book, perfect for first graders!

This Thanksgiving table runner craft isn't just fun and festive, it also helps your child build muscles for hand strength, fine motor skills, and handwriting.

People have favorite flavors, but what about ants? Which ant food is the most popular?

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

Can you dig it? This science experiment isn't for kids who like to keep their hands clean.

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

Create an American flag pinwheel in this Fourth of July craft activity!

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!

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!

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.