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.

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

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!

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

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!

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

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."

Help you child create an inspirational quote board out of foam that will motivate her to produce her best work and maintain a positive attitude.

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!

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

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

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

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