This Earth Day, create an adorable litter bug while learning about the importance of recycling.

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!

Mobiles make fun art projects for creative kids. Help your child bend simple pipe cleaners into bug shapes as diverse as the creepy crawlies that inspired them.

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

This activity is a creative and fun way to boosts a child's motor skills while giving her a lasting toy.

Cinnamon is tasty, but does it have super powers as well? Find out if cinnamon can repel mosquitoes in this outdoorsy experiment.

Your child will enjoy getting math practice as they use bugs in addition and subtraction problems.

Help your budding artist construct this paper chain caterpillar craft, inspired by the intelligent bug from "Alice in Wonderland."

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

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

How often do we eat with awareness and really taste our food and think about where the food came from? Mindful eating is a great way to practice mindfulness infused with gratitude and appreciation for our food.

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

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

Practice counting with this winter kindergarten art project! As your child sculpts a clay igloo, he will work on math and dexterity and learn about snow.

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

Use egg cartons to create imaginative spiders the kids will treasure.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Invite your kindergartener to explore the bright new world of measurement by starting out with nonstandard (and tasty!) units, such as gummy bears or worms.

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

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 caterpillars out of papier-mache and let the kids explore their inner creepy crawler.

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

This flannel board will give your child hands-on practice with math, but in a fun format, full of ladybugs.

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

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Practice counting to 100 independently with this American flag craft project!