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

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

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.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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

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

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!

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.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

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.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!

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

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.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

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.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

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

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.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

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

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

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

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!

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

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

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

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.