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

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

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

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.

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

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

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

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.

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

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

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.

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

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

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.

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"?

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

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

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!