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

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

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.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

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

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.

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.

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

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Got a kid who's learning to read? Looking for a new board game to add to the bunch? With a little help from your child, you can make a game of your own!

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

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

Make a tooth care poster with your kindergartener to help her understand how important it is to take care of those growing pearly whites!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

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

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.

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.