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It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

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

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

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

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

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.

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:

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

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

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:

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

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

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

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!

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

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

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

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

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

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.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, 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!

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

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.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

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

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

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

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!