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Create a crafty porcupine with your first grader, and use the opportunity to teach your little one about it's ingenious (yet painful!) defense mechanism.

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

This easy Halloween-themed science experiment for first-graders is perfect for chilly October afternoons or great as a Halloween party activity.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

What would it be like to be the Cat in the Hat from the famous Dr. Seuss book? This Read Across America project has your 1st grader making his own fun-in-a-box!

Your first grader will love making her favorite feline a chase toy out of old fabric scraps, and she will learn beginning sewing basics while she's at it!

This time-based word builder is the perfect way to boost your child's vocabulary. Mix and match letters to see how many words she can come up with!

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

Here is a way to help your first grader keep track of the books she has read, and also help her develop some critical thinking skills.

Celebrate Read Across America Day with your first grader by playing a pink crepe paper racing game inspired by Dr. Seuss's book "The Cat in the Hat Come Back."

Let your preschooler play with her food by making snack logs out of celery, peanut butter and corn flakes.

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

Compare and order numbers and introduce mathematical inequalities in this fun math card game.

Make going back to school fun with this surprising pop up book, perfect for first graders!

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

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.

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

This science fair project idea explores how length affects the weight a bridge can hold.

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Show your first grader how to create her own octopus out of yarn. This simple, yet fun, project yields an adorable play or cuddle partner.

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!

Your first grader will love feeding his favorite winged creatures with these tasty Christmas "cookies" for birds!

Your first grader can create this cute heart puzzle with craft sticks and watercolor paints to challenge her friends!

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

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!

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

Lots of everyday objects can be fun, whether it's buttons, beans, or Lego blocks. Here's an activity that uses coins to build problem-solving strategies.