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

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

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

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

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.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

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!

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!

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Your child will love making this adorable clover clock that will help him learn how to tell time.

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

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

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

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