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This first grade science activity is great for winter! Your child will grow and observe her own amaryllis bulb, keeping a journal of her scientific findings.

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

Play this fun game with your kindergarten or first grader. It's a great way to practice important math skills, including counting and addition.

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

Help your first grader, second grader, or third grader boost his addition skills and math vocabulary with this fun summer game Ice Cream Addition!

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

A food groups plate shows your child what category her foods belong in. Make a food groups plate with your child before dinnertime.

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

Try this card game to build math fact skills, like addition and subtraction, and have a great time, too!

First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

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.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

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

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.