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 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.

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!

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

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.

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!

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

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

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

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Here's a sweet gift you and your child can make together, sure to please the most finicky valentine.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

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 make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Rewriting this classic Christmas carol will spark your child's creativity while strengthening his familiarity with grammar and style elements.

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.

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

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

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

Looking for Father's Day inspiration? Make him a "card" he can wear...and build up your kindergartener's reading skills while you're at it.

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

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

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.