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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.

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

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

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

In this tons-of-fun reading activity, your child plans a storytime, makes a flyer, creates a coloring sheet, and hosts their own storytime.

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

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

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

Uh-oh! Is that a pill sitting on the counter or a piece of candy?

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

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

This hands-on activity gets first grade kids brainstorming about what needs change in the world, and how they can help.

Celebrate the new year by making a memory book with your child! You'll reinforce time and calendar concepts and you'll get to reminisce about the past year.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

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

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Make a clever egg pop-up card for Easter that hides a special surprise: open the flaps, and out pops a fluffy baby chick!

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

Make a Christmas countdown calendar to get your child excited about the coming holiday. This Christmas countdown calendar helps you make holiday memories.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.