Calaveras means "skulls" in Spanish, and in Mexico, skulls are brightly decorated to celebrate Dia de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.

Help to build your child's reading skills and get your point across with these homemade message magnets!

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

Craft butterflies from coffee filters in this sweet spring craft project!

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

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.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Make a fun refrigerator graph with your first grader in order to help her develop those crucial graphing skills, while engaging with the whole family.

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

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!

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

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

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

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

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

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!

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

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.

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

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

Kids will explore the corrosiveness of soda in this cool science fair project by leaving pennies submerged in soda overnight.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Your kid will be captivated as she watches liquids change color before her very eyes during this fun science project that introduces some chemistry basics.

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!