With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

Get your first grader to help you with scrapbooking by showing him how to use multiple envelopes to create an accordion-style photo book.

Using paper plates, have the kids make these fun animal masks and your house will be transformed into a jungle.

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Explore solids and liquids with your young scientist by making gluep, a goopy substance that can behave like both a solid and a liquid!

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

Your first grader will enjoy creating his own leprechaun from a recycled toilet paper tube.

Invite your kid to create her own hanging dove images--a symbol of peace and unity--in honor of Black History Month.

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

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 measurement activity uses feet to compare objects, but not the ones found on rulers and measuring sticks...the feet on your child's own body!

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

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

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

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

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!

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

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Are your taste buds up for the challenge? Put tongues to the test with this science fair project that examines who enjoys sour flavors more, adults or kids?

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

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.

Whether it's a bag lunch, goody bag, or used to decorate a table, this cute little fox bag is sure to make your kid smile.

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

Transfer your child's artwork onto clothing using an iron-on transfer. It's easier than it sounds, and your child will love wearing his artwork!

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!

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.