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

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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

Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

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.

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

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.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

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

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

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

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f