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In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

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.

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

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.

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

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 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!

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

Save some money on the decorations with this simple birthday banner that your child can make himself!

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

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

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

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

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

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

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."