Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

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.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

Kids are acutely aware of what's "fair" and what's not. Here's a quirky way to teach your first grader the importance of voting and democracy.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Help your child create his own pinata in this fun and easy activity. Use paper mache and fingerpaint for a party pinata everyone will love.

Save some money this Halloween and work out fine motor skills by helping your child make his very own computer costume.

Does your child love Roly, the orange cat from our Brainzy games? Create the perfect dress-up costume and bring your child’s dreams to life!

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Celebrate the season of flowers with a homemade vase budding with blooms of the season. Filled with the warmth of a sunny day, it's just the thing for spring.

Your child can re-use and re-purpose old seeds and paper into something new: decorated paper that can be planted!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

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

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!

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

The perfect activity for a rainy day, or any time your little one moans, "Moooo-oom, there's nothing to do!"

Your first grader will gain an understanding of time management as your holiday tasks become manageable, with this to-do list reinvented as an advent calendar!

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

Why not change things up a bit with this fun way of making those loop-hole bunny ears that sit at the top of his sneakers.

In kindergarten, your child spent lots of time counting things one by one. But in first grade, he'll need to be able to count in groups, especially by fives.

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

This science fair project idea teaches to understand and explore the concepts of crystal formation and dissolving substances.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Not only is homemade wrapping paper pretty, but by experimenting with decorative tools, kids are also doing science, art, and small-motor muscle building.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

The chalkboard surface on this desk globe tempts kids to grab their chalk and start mapping out their next adventures.

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

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.

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.