Before your crafty kid moves on to sewing needles and thread, help her create a beautiful cross-stitch pattern with markers!

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!

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

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

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

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

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

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:

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

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

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.

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

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!