Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

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!

Your child can count down the days until Christmas while giving Santa's beard a trim. This adorable project bolsters counting and number recognition skills.

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

Create your very own "stained glass" flower, the perfect gift for mom this Mother's Day!

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.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Encourage your preschooler's creativity with this exciting art project! Every "scratch art" drawing is unique and colorful!

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

In this activity, your kid will cut rectangles, circles and triangles to create a portrait of the jolliest man of them all: Santa Claus!

Reuse the tops of tissue boxes as photo frames for treasured family photos in this fun craft activity.

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.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

While kids learn when they can see or hear, they learn better when they can touch, too! Get your preschooler's fingers walking the alphabet today!

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

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.

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!