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.

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

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.

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

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

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

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

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

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

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

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

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!

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

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

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.