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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.

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

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.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

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.

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

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:

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Make a tooth care poster with your kindergartener to help her understand how important it is to take care of those growing pearly whites!

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.

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

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!

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

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!

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

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

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

Looking for Father's Day inspiration? Make him a "card" he can wear...and build up your kindergartener's reading skills while you're at it.

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