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!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

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

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.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

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

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

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

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!