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

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

Stringy orange ghoul guts are actually a healthy and gross-looking appetizer for your child's Halloween party.

These cute holly-shaped hair clips are a breeze to make for holiday celebrations. They make a great party activity, too!

Here's a hands-on activity that first grade use to help kids get a feel for equations. It uses popsicle sticks to practice addition and subtraction!

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

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!

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.

Use empty soda bottles to create a fun bowling set that helps your first grader practice addition skills!

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

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

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.

Your first grader will love telling time while playing this fun game of tag! Ask Captain Midnight for the time, but watch out when his watch says "midnight"!

A hands-on guessing game that teaches kids to recognize different coins. First graders will learn their money and their math at the same time!

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.

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

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

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

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

Learn how to make a paper snowflake with these simple instructions. Help your child learn how to make a paper snowflake with only paper and scissors.

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