Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

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.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

Make this dragon relief with your first grader to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and teach her about an important part of Chinese culture.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Help your first grader make these patriotic hanging streamer decorations this 4th of July!

Practice measurement and proportion with your first grader, and in the process, make three scrumptious salads for you and your child to share on Mother's Day!

Pumpkin carving party activities are great for a pre-Halloween party. Try pumpkin carving party activities, including jack-o'-lantern ideas and fall recipes.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Uh-oh! Is that a pill sitting on the counter or a piece of candy?

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

This lucky cake makes the perfect hideout for leprechaun treasure.

Learn how to make a trick-or-treat bag for Halloween. See how to make a decorative trick-or-treat bag with this Halloween craft tutorial.

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

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

Make a clever egg pop-up card for Easter that hides a special surprise: open the flaps, and out pops a fluffy baby chick!

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.

This science experiment tests why guacamole goes brown and if leaving the pit in will stop guacamole from turning brown.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

Most kids love to play spy. Here's a way to have fun with mysterious codes while mastering an ordinary, necessary skill: first grade spelling.

The objective of this science project was to build a model of a volcano and observe reaction between different substances, including baking soda and vinegar.

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

Check out this fun science fair project idea for 1st grade: a solar eclipse model that demonstrates total, partial, and annular solar eclipses.

Invite your child, and any other kids attending the Seder, to help you make this "hands on" matzah cover for Passover this year.