Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

Practicing letters and words by writing them out is all well and good, but spelling out your practice words with old puzzle pieces is a lot more fun!

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Silent "e" words are a big part of first grade phonics. Help them turn words like "hop" to "hope" in this action-packed, practical game.

Children will love this arts and crafts activity. Write an "invisible" message in white crayon, then paint over it to reveal the secret!

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

Graph are a great way to organize information. Your child will get to practice graphing by creating a bar graph and a pictorial graph of her friend's names.

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

Play Rock Tic-Tac-Toe, the perfect outdoor game for all ages. Help your child develop thinking skills and get away from the TV!

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Challenge your budding wordsmith to see how many words he can make out of his own name, using homemade flashcards.

Looking for a fun summer activity to capture all your vacation memories? Create a summer scrapbook with your child!

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

A lemonade stand is a great opportunity for your kids to work on their money skills and donate some hard earned money to charity.

Host a royal party full of "please and thank you" - even the queen would approve. Have a ball while your kids practice etiquette!

Most kids love to play spy. Here's a way to have fun with mysterious codes while mastering an ordinary, necessary skill: first grade spelling.

Make cards this May Day celebrating the arrival of springtime.

Determination can go along way, especially in difficult times. In this home activity, your child will hear the true story of Ivy, the very determined dog, who plays, loves, and runs, just like the other dogs, even though she does not have the ability to

Looking for an on-the-go game that can be played anywhere, anytime? Put down the hangman and tic-tac-toe. Here's a new one for the whole family!

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

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

This hunt for leprechaun gold is so much fun, kids won't even realize they're working their reading muscles at the same time.

Add a Hannukah twist to Chutes and Ladders by using a dreidel as the dice.

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.

In this high energy, interactive game, third graders are challenged to race, involving spelling patterns in words.

Here's an activity to help your child create her very own time capsule to unearth and open in one, five, or even ten years later!

Improve your child's hand-eye coordination with these fun dribbling drills! Before you know it he'll be a ball-handling master.

Spice up a traditional watercolor painting project with magazine cutout letters that spell out your favorite poem.