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

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Celebrate Read Across America Day with your first grader by playing a pink crepe paper racing game inspired by Dr. Seuss's book "The Cat in the Hat Come Back."

What would it be like to be the Cat in the Hat from the famous Dr. Seuss book? This Read Across America project has your 1st grader making his own fun-in-a-box!

Layer images and handprint owls to create a Halloween painting!

Boost fine motor skills and get in the spirit of fall with this fun wreath-making project.

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

Enjoy the fragrant scents of the holiday season with this pomander activity. A perfect arts and crafts project for preschool or kindergarten age children.

This Thanksgiving cornucopia activity will give you a nice homemade table decoration and will give your child a festive reason to read, write, and be thankful.

Engage your children with this fun fall activity that integrates math and science. First, your child will excavate to find leaves. Next, they'll examine them to determine the colors. Then, your child will graph their findings.

This crafty activity will help your child develop an understanding of important math concepts like patterning and spatial awareness.

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

In this tons-of-fun reading activity, your child plans a storytime, makes a flyer, creates a coloring sheet, and hosts their own storytime.

In this activity, help your kindergartener develop sequencing skills with these easy story sequence cards

Using beautiful oil pastels and their own wild imagination, your child will come up with their own spooky, spectacular, or spine-tingling monster.

Help motivate your child to become a more avid and consistent reader by creating a train-themed reading chart that can serve as a visual reminder of their progress.

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.

Return to school in style! Dress up your pencil holders with this delightful and always seasonally appropriate arts and craft project.

Caring for ourselves and others can build connections and a greater sense of love. In this activity, children reflect on what it means to be caring and to show kindness to others through drawing and performing a kind act of their choosing.

Make quick sweet and salty walnuts, a delicious addition to fall salads and fruit and nut plates, or a simple afternoon snack.

Have a little fun playing with food this Thanksgiving, and a silly harvest holiday potato with your child!

Create a fun fall leaf rubbing with your child to explore shapes and textures this fall.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

Checkerboard play challenges students to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!