Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

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.

This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

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

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

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

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

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

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

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

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

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

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

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

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

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!

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!

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

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!