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!

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

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

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

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

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

Make grammar interesting for kinders, with this fun take on charades. They'll practice verbs and get in some giggles, too!

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

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

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

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

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.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

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.