Before hitting the road this summer, arm yourself with Straight Face, a game guaranteed to turn bored frowns into happy grins and giggles.

Kids will love painting shapes of objects in a still life while using strong colors showing highlights and shadows.

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

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.

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!

Build good first grade reading and writing skills, as well as family peace and quiet, with this hand made story book about mornings in your home.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

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

Every day can be Chinese New Year with a dancing dragon that your child can make at home.

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

This hunt for leprechaun gold is so much fun, kids won't even realize they're working their reading muscles at the same time.

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

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

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Encourage your child to help make dinner special this holiday season! If your child is loves to help in the kitchen, this is a great activity. They will build mini-penguins to enjoy while waiting for dinner!

Make a festive bunny box that will be great for gift giving or storing candy and other small objects.

This science experiment has students test whether a snail moves faster on concrete or dirt.

This marshmallow snowman craft is a festive way for your child to practice counting and art. Make a marshmallow snowman with your child this holiday season.

Kids can make a cute fluffy bunny for Easter using a tin can and cotton balls in this creative first grade arts and crafts activity.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

Wake up and create a fun, healthy snowman with your learner! As a family, create a snowman on your plate with yogurt, add some snowman accessories, and design a snowy environment.

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

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

Matzoh brei is a fun-to-eat Jewish breakfast. It is a lot like traditional French toast, only it is made with matzoh instead of bread.

Wiggly worms are known for staying buried in the soil, but how does that affect plants? Are earthworms and plant growth related?

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

What would it be like to be the Cat in the Hat from the famous Dr. Seuss book? This Read Across America project has your 1st grader making his own fun-in-a-box!

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

Tissue Valentine's hearts make great decorations and help your child work out those all-important fine motor skills.

Head out to the driveway, ball in hand, for a bouncing challenge. Then use those results to make a colorful graph that lets your child compare results.