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.

To make this unique Valentine's Card, all your child will need is his creative mind, some paper, and a pencil.

Using lessons from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life, help your child implement kindness and compassion into their interactions with others.

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

This spider hat activity challenges your child to learn about spiders and improve fine motor skills. Make a spider hat with your child on Halloween or any time.

This science fair project idea determines if crystals will absorb food dye and if colors will mix by the process of diffusion.

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

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

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.

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

Valentine bookmarks make reading lovely. Make a valentine bookmark that looks like a heart-filled bookworm.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

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.

Learn about this simple machine and make a pulley of your own to use for fun science trials.

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

In this science project, young children observe, record, and create collections of colors in their world and increase their powers of observation.

Stamp out the sameness of learning the ABC's for your kindergartener. Make 26 letter sponge stamps and create projects with him to practice.

Could your child’s room use a little bit more firecracker sparkle? Add an explosion of glow-in-the-dark color with this spectacular mason jar craft.

In this science fair project, young children observe, record, and create collections of shapes in their world and increase their powers of observation.

Help your child get more comfortable with rhyme schemes with The Bear in Despair by Amanda Bray Cody.

Want to capture this year? Make a time capsule of this period in your child's life! You may just be surprised at what you find, when you dig it up next year...

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

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!

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

Encourage your child to learn about the Japanese culture as you make a traditional Japanese fan out of paper.

Help your child explore their imagination and self-image with a larger-than-life-size self-portrait!

Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.