This winter world craft will introduce your kid to pointillism, a technique in which dots are used to create a recognizable image.

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

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

This simple art project will help your child think of nice words to say that come from the heart.

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

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

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

If your first grader has a hard time practicing his vocabulary skills, introduce him to this fun word building game.

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

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

Your child will make her mark on the world with unique homemade ink stamps.

Help your first grader explore the world of scientific measurement by "weighing" fruit with a "water scale"!

This hands-on activity gets first grade kids brainstorming about what needs change in the world, and how they can help.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

This fun photography activity will build your child's vocabulary, their understanding of the world, and they'll make their own game of concentration!

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

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

Silent "e" words are a big part of first grade phonics. Help them turn words like "hop" to "hope" in this action-packed, practical game.

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, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

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

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

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

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

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

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