Here's a quick and easy recipe for homemade play dough that doesn't involve any cooking! This bright and colorful modeling clay makes a great instant toy!

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

Your child will "build" a snowman and lace her way around the paper plates, boosting her manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination.

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

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

Use this fun math board game to improve your first grader's confidence with addition facts.

Enjoy the beauty of winter from the comfort of your home with this first grade art activity: make sparkly snowflake sculptures using modeling clay and glitter.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

Preschoolers can ply their creativity making recycled egg carton masks in this clever eco-friendly arts and crafts activity.

Using just an egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.

Make a family tree with your child to teach him about his personal history. Make a family tree with this tutorial, and teach your kid about his family history.

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!

Decorating pumpkins is a safer, cleaner alternative to carving. These Cubist art pumpkins are easy and fun to make, and serve as great fall decor.

This winter world craft will introduce your kid to pointillism, a technique in which dots are used to create a recognizable image.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Your child can use watercolors to paint butterflise and to practice the "wet into wet" technique, an important step in art.

When your child is itching for a game, consider ditching Hide and Seek in favor of Shape and Seek. Here's how it works:

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Teach your child about the importance of Labor Day by helping her learn about the different hats that are worn by workers in various occupations.

Give your science savvy kindergarten a lesson in plant science with this fun carnation experiment.

In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how:

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

A homemade coat of arms is a great way to get your child thinking about your family's values, and it makes a fun addition to the costume box as well!

Boost your preschooler's math and verbal skills by having her participate in simple, fun activities that teach her how to sort, count, and categorize objects.

This witches' brew recipe for kids is a cool mix of lemonade, tapioca pearl "eggs," and gummy worms. Try this witches' brew recipe for kids this Halloween.

Teach a lesson in the math and art with the concept of symmetry, while making a delightful cut-paper shadow pumpkin for Halloween!

This activity is based on the popular card game, Slapjack. It's rip-roaring fun, and it reinforces the concepts of odd and even.

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