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.

Try this fall-inspired art activity with your child to teach some basic art principles about color, pattern and texture.

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

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

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.

Say thanks this Thanksgiving by surprising a friend, a teacher or a grandparent with this paper plate turkey which doubles as a festive wall hanging.

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.

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

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!

Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

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

In this fun science project your child will get practice following directions and getting messy as they learn all about slime!

Give your child an American history lesson as you create a colorful mini totem pole!

Introduce learners to the skeletal system and create a budget-friendly Halloween craft with this paper skeleton!

This Where the Wild Things Are costume will make your little wild thing look just like Max. This Where the Wild Things Are costume is surprisingly easy to make.

Blanket forts are a kid classic! Let your child create a âfortress of solitudeâ on his own for reading, telling scary stories or for cozy cocooning.