April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

Merge the excitement of basketball tournaments with students’ excitement about books! This activity gives kids a chance to read and form opinions about the books.

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Here are three easy, budget-friendly ways to preserve your child's work and precious memories without filling up the attic.

In this activity, you and your child will read a story about heartfulness, practice heartfulness by sending kind wishes to others, and draw pictures of those you both love and care for (such as family members, friends, or pets).

Determination can go along way, especially in difficult times. In this home activity, your child will hear the true story of Ivy, the very determined dog, who plays, loves, and runs, just like the other dogs, even though she does not have the ability to

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

This activity is a fun challenge for students who have just started learning to program educational robots.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

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

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.

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

The power of gratitude is endless! Research shows that cultivating a gratitude practice can gratitude strengthen relationships, improve physical and emotional well-being, deepen empathy skills, and improve self-esteem. With such wide-spread benefits, how

In this activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

Play this homophone game with your child the next time you sit down with them to read a story and help them build some valuable reading skills.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

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.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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

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.

Could your child’s room use a little bit more firecracker sparkle? Add an explosion of glow-in-the-dark color with this spectacular mason jar craft.

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Encourage your child to learn about the Japanese culture as you make a traditional Japanese fan out of paper.