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

Free science fair project idea that examines cheating in school-age children. Project involves a task in which children are tested on various tasks.

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.

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

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

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

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

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

Science fair project that determines whether brain size is correlated with intelligence.

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.

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

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.

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

Create your own set of alphabet blocks: you can make just a few or all 26.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Discover whether cheap saline solution bottle cleans and disinfects just as well as more expensive kinds formulated with different ingredients.

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Let your child play with scissors! Put them to work, creating a book that will keep them busy, and help them practice their letters, too.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

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.

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

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!

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.

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