Using just an egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.

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.

Pumpkin carving party activities are great for a pre-Halloween party. Try pumpkin carving party activities, including jack-o'-lantern ideas and fall recipes.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

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

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

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

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

Here is an activity that your kids can make for Mother's Day, a garden pot filled with edible "flowers".

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

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

This caterpillar math game gets your child to work on addition and subtraction. Challenge your child's math prowess with this fast-paced caterpillar math game.

This Halloween math activity book is a whole lot of fun.

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.

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.

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!