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!

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

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

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

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

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.

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

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

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

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

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.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

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

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

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.

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

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

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.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

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

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

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.