This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

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

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Discover which absorbent material is the best; the Shamwow, paper towels, or cotton towels.

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.

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

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

Your child can count down the days until Christmas while giving Santa's beard a trim. This adorable project bolsters counting and number recognition skills.

This science fair project idea raises awareness of a real ecological issue.

Want to make number skills second nature to your preschooler? Try these cheerful, "sunny" number flash cards!

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

Your preschooler will have a great time painting on a foil background to create a stunning, shiny work of art!

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

Want to do something a little different for Dad this year? Have your child design his very own Father's Day "Greatest Hits CD" card.

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.

The purpose of this science fair project is to determine whether Green Bags, with or without refrigeration, are most effective in preserving food.

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

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

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

Discover whether cheap saline solution bottle cleans and disinfects just as well as more expensive kinds formulated with different ingredients.

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Identifying angles may sound intimidating, but with this exercise, you can turn your child into an expert angler in no time!

This flash card game will help your child memorize words while visually learning the differences between objects.

Science fair project which evaluates different athletic shoes in order to find out whether any of them affect a person's ability to run.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!