A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

In this creative arts and crafts activity, children will design and create their very own alphabet tree!

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Build a peek-a-boo book and give your child a fun vocabulary and reading boost, on the fly!

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

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.

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

Making personalized postcards out of meaningful photographs is a fun, rainy day project.

Hereâs a surefire way to get your kids practicing their ABCs. Create an edible alphabet out of marshmallows and toothpicks.

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Can you win a staring contest? Would your performance be influenced by your eyesight? Find out in this science fair project idea!

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!