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

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!

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

This competitive inequalities card game is a great way to help your child understand the connection between numerals and the values they represent.

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

With help, your fifth grader can sew her own version of this pin cushion currently available at many craft fairs.

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

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Encourage your child to help with dinner preparations this holiday season! You can use this recipe for Christmas dinner or lunch, or for meals leading up to the holiday. This Christmas Wreath Salad recipe is simple enough for preschoolers to fifth graders

Caring for ourselves and others can build connections and a greater sense of love. In this activity, children reflect on what it means to be caring and to show kindness to others through drawing and performing a kind act of their choosing.

Caring for ourselves and others can build connections and a greater sense of love. In this activity, your child will discuss what it means to be caring and will demonstrate care through drawing and by performing two caring and kind deeds.

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

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

A car game for road trips with children.

Ringing a quiet bell is also a great way to support focus and bring kids into the present moment so they can be aware of what they are experiencing inside.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Support your first grader's interest in reading with this decorative bookmark that illustrates a favorite scene from a loved book.

Here's a pumpkin nut bread recipe that makes for a wonderful project on a crisp autumn afternoon.

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

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

Create a sun-shaped summer words chart in this DIY craft activity!

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

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

Encourage your child to help make dinner special this holiday season! If your child is loves to help in the kitchen, this is a great activity. They will build mini-penguins to enjoy while waiting for dinner!

Want to help your child develop stronger numeracy skills and make your dice games even more fun? Try creating some googly-eyed funny dice.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

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

Here are three easy, budget-friendly ways to preserve your child's work and precious memories without filling up the attic.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

Celebrate the new year by making a memory book with your child! You'll reinforce time and calendar concepts and you'll get to reminisce about the past year.