Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

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!

After the party and presents, there's just one more thing for your child to do: thank you notes!

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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.

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

Here are some kindergarten readiness activities that you can do with reused plastic bottle caps.

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

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

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

While kids learn when they can see or hear, they learn better when they can touch, too! Get your preschooler's fingers walking the alphabet today!

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

Use marbles and paint to explore the wild world of shapes and color...and build writing strength, too.

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

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

This activity will have your child learning about dependent and independent clauses, not to mention the punctuation that goes in the middle.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Your preschooler will engage their senses by making a scented pumpkin to decorate your house.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Try this delicious and nutritious recipe for Green Eggs and Ham, inspired by Dr. Seuss's classic story of Sam I Am.

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.

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

Wax paper hearts are a unique and glittery gift for a special friend on Valentine's Day. Make wax paper hearts with your child this February.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Boost your child's early literacy skills and create alphabet tiles she can play and practice with - great reinforcement for ABC's, phonics and writing!

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.