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

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

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

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

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.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Holiday thank you cards show friends and family that you appreciate them. Make a batch of holiday thank you cards with your child this winter.

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

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.

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"?

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

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

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

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

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

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

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.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills 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.

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

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

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.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

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 fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

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

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.