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!

This butterfly costume comes together in under an hour and is perfect for your little trick-or-treater. Make this butterfly costume for Halloween or play time.

Your child will boost her gross motor skills as she has fun playing with your easy-to-make and totally safe dart board and dart balls.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

It's a great time for family crafts. Here's a ghost Halloween decoration you and your child can make together.

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

This DIY menorah will make a beautiful addition to your Hanukkah celebrations. Make a DIY menorah with your child this winter.

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

In this activity, your child will learn how to spruce up her bike with an original license plate!

What could be more fun than doing sidewalk art? How about making your own colored sidewalk chalk!

This simple bookmaking activity will introduce and reinforce alphabet and number recognition skills that have been taught at home or learned in preschool.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

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

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.

This year on Mother's Day, here's a gift that builds vocabulary while bringing a smile to Mom's face!

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Help your kindergartener practice counting from one to ten with this fun outdoor activity. Make a "My Backyard Counting Book" to review counting to ten.

Help your first grader make a coin bank that builds connections to early reading and math. And build good saving habits, too!

Homophones are those tricky little words that tend to confound early learners. Help your second grader ace the challenge with this outdoor game.

Build good first grade reading and writing skills, as well as family peace and quiet, with this hand made story book about mornings in your home.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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.

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"!

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

Hanukkah stamps help you decorate anything from cards to gifts to wrapping paper. Make your own Hanukkah stamps out of potatoes.