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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

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

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

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

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

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

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

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!

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.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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.