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

Celebrate the season with a fall centerpiece art project your child can display for the whole family!

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

This Thanksgiving, make a pine cone turkey that can double as a personalized place setting for each family member.

Valentine's Day coupons get kids to stretch their imaginations and budgets for the holiday. Make Valentine's Day coupons for friends and family this February.

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Bake these delicious Crisco Cookies with your child this holiday season to give as gifts to friends and family.

It's a great time for family crafts. Here's a ghost Halloween decoration you and your child can make together.

The meaning of Thanksgiving can sometimes get lost among the fun of food and family. Discuss the meaning of Thanksgiving with this fun activity.

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

Heart-shaped pizza is an unusual Valentine's Day treat that your child will fall in love with. Make a heart-shaped pizza this Valentine's Day with your family.

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.

Give your kid the opportunity to experiment with color combinations, and how the tape is applied as they make special cards for friends and family.

This fun first grade activity will make your child love vegetables (well, racing them anyway). Build a racecar from a zucchini and challenge the whole family!

Wake up and create a fun, healthy snowman with your learner! As a family, create a snowman on your plate with yogurt, add some snowman accessories, and design a snowy environment.

Build good first grade reading and writing skills, as well as family peace and quiet, with this hand made story book about mornings in your home.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

This fall-themed missing letter activity is a great way to help your child learn the alphabet, build their vocabulary and bolster letter recognition skills.

Make these simple homemade New Year's gifts with your child this holiday season to give to friends and family, each with a special message inside.

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

First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

Create a beautiful piece of art to celebrate Hanukkah! Using easy to find materials, your child will create a one of a kind suncatcher great for decoration or even a gift to family and friends!

In this activity, you and your child will read a story about heartfulness, practice heartfulness by sending kind wishes to others, and draw pictures of those you both love and care for (such as family members, friends, or pets).

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

Learn all about cause and effect as your child experiments with an exploding pumpkin in this engaging fall activity! Get the whole family involved with this simple science experiment that is a fun and exciting way to combine Halloween and science.

Turn snack time into a healthy ho-ho-holiday activity! Make a face that looks like a cartoon Santa using fruits. It will be a fun activity that will get your family in the holiday spirit, and spice up your snack time with healthy treats.

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

Make “teal the new orange” this Halloween season! Help your child learn about the Teal Pumpkin Project and paint the color teal on a pumpkin to advertise that your family will offer non-food toys as a treat, or “trinket” option.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!