Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

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.

In this lesson, your child will reflect on, draw, and collect things that make them feel happy and peaceful.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

In this activity, kids will create a peace corner in their bedroom or home and reflect on ways they may use their peace corner through drawing and discussion.

Does your kid have a stash of sweets left over from Halloween? Turn that pile of candy into a learning opportunity with this sorting and categorizing activity.

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

Weave a unique ribbon pattern! This fun arts and crafts activity is a great way to make colorful projects and learn basic math and art skills.

Honor dad's fatherly achievements with a handmade plaque for a job well done!

First graders will love practicing addition with this fun math game.

In this science fair project, kids measure how weather conditions affect how fast a puddle evaporates.

This spider mobile activity encourages learning about the science of motion, air currents and art.

This homemade snare drum made with everyday household items gets its authentic rattle sound from paper clips and tin.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Help your preschooler combine a lesson about numbers with a silly, snowy game of hopscotch.

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

Silent "e" words are a big part of first grade phonics. Help them turn words like "hop" to "hope" in this action-packed, practical game.

Help your first grader explore the world of scientific measurement by "weighing" fruit with a "water scale"!

Celebrate Ramadan by recreating a scene depicting the inside of a mosque. Your kid will marvel at the beautiful stained glass effect of the finished project.

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

Children will practice mindfulness through a short guided practice, reflect on the practices that support peace, and then will build a "peace garden."

The power of gratitude is endless! Research shows that cultivating a gratitude practice can gratitude strengthen relationships, improve physical and emotional well-being, deepen empathy skills, and improve self-esteem. With such wide-spread benefits, how

Your child will rule his kingdom in style with this regal Pharaoh's head cloth, called a "nemes."

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

This is a fun way to introduce kids to the concept of volume, and give them a quick hands-on activity to boot.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

Challenge your budding wordsmith to see how many words he can make out of his own name, using homemade flashcards.

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.