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Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

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

Make this spring break a memorable one by creating a "growth" flower with your child, also great for your second grader's writing practice!

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!

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

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

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

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

Learn how to count in Spanish. Your child will practice her numbers and build her reading skills while learning a bit about Latino culture along the way.

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.

Pasta makes a good dinner, but it can also be used to teach proper letter formation! In this easy crafts activity, you'll use pasta and glue to form letters.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Help your child get the hang of reading with this fun activity. Here's how to make a spinning phonics wheel out of two paper plates.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

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

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Children get creative with this fun, imaginative activity that combines an upcycled everyday household item with a few craft supplies.

This simple bookmaking activity will introduce and reinforce alphabet and number recognition skills that have been taught at home or learned in preschool.

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.

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Help your second grader celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this rainbow table mat.

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

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

This science fair project idea determines if crystals will absorb food dye and if colors will mix by the process of diffusion.