A scarecrow Halloween craft featuring recycled materials.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

Make your own Matryoshka out of simple craft materials in this easy how-to!

Teaching your child some basic words in Spanish is a breeze at home, with this simple and fun activity that doesn't require special educational materials.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

This homemade pom-pom garland requires very few materials and instantly brightens up a room with Easter-themed pastels.

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

Using simple materials, children will create a movement card game that the whole family can play together.

Thiscuddly stuffed animal is made from just a few materials, including your recycled stockings.

Celebrate the blooming season with your kid by showing him how to make a magical spring mosaic out of all natural materials!

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

Transform a single sheet of card stock into a double-sided painting of opposites: on one side, a bright daytime landscape, on the other, a dusky evening scene.

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.

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

Your second grader can honor two renowned U.S. Presidents--Abraham Lincoln and George Washington--by crafting larger-than-life pennies and quarters!

Create a beautiful piece of art to celebrate Hanukkah! Using easy to find materials, your child will create a one of a kind suncatcher great for decoration or even a gift to family and friends!

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

First grade math includes lots of work with two-digit numbers. Here's an activity to help kids practice recognizing and sequencing numbers from 1-30.

Help your child get the hang of reading with this fun activity. Here's how to make a spinning phonics wheel out of two paper plates.

Delight your child by helping them to construct a boat that can hold two seaworthy toy figures in this engaging project made from upcycled water bottles.

This recycled craft makes a great addition to the dress-up box and is a two-in-one activity and party favor for princess-themed birthday parties.

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

Here are two fun, rhythmic jump rope chants to help your first grader learn the days of the week, practice reading skills, and stay fit!