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

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

Put your kid to the test and have him compare and contrast elements in a narrative text by identifying how characters and situations are alike and different.

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

This project examines whether more expensive golf balls translate into better results on the golf course.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Show your teen how to create silly limericks--cheery comic verses that probably originated in Limerick, Ireland--of her own.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Determine if each hemisphere specializes in dealing with specific functions. Include illustrations of the brain, it hemispheres.

Using homemade felt alphabet letters and 26 colorful pictures, your preschooler will have a great time as they practice recognizing letters and their sounds.

Introduce your preschooler to patterns in this arts and craft activity that uses household materials to create and paint scratch prints.

This activity turns kids into word detectives - scouring their way through documents in search of their prey.