Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

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

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.

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

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:

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

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

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

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!

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

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

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

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

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

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

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

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

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.

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

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

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

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

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!

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.