Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

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.

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

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

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

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

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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!

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!

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:

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

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

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 preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

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

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.