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.

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

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

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

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

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

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:

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

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!

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.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

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

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

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!

Save some money on the decorations with this simple birthday banner that your child can make himself!

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

Make these simple homemade New Year's gifts with your child this holiday season to give to friends and family, each with a special message inside.

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.