Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

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.

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

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

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

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.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

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

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

I see fun in your future! Your child will love making homemade Popsicles and creating jokes or fortunes to write on the Popsicle sticks.

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

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

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

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

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

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.