Learn all about colors with the best teachers of all -- cupcakes!

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!

Children reflect on ways they have cared for themselves, others, and the Earth before building a garden to share beauty with others in their community.

Do you have your isopods straight? Learn about sow bug and pill bug behavior by building a terrarium to study them in!

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

The 100th day of school is an important benchmark for kids in the lower elementary grades. Help your kid create a 100 days of school shirt to celebrate!

In this activity, your student will be invited to build a chair out of building blocks that is designed to meet the specific size and shape of a small doll or toy figure.

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

In this activity, your child will explore the difference between boredom and curiosity in building greater attentiveness and happiness in the present moment.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

While building his own croquet set, your kindergartener will use both his math an fine motor skills and as he plays he'll improve his hand-eye coordination.

Challenge your 1st grader to skip count with this sequence game. Help him find missing numbers by figuring out the pattern and building on math skills!

Silent "e" words are a big part of first grade phonics. Help them turn words like "hop" to "hope" in this action-packed, practical game.

Picking words out can be tricky. In this early reading activity, your child will place letter markers on a grid to make words appear out of the jumble.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

Kids of all ages will delight in making these jumbo "cupcake" crayons from all of the broken crayon stubs that seem to pile up around the house.

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

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!

Ombre art is all the rage. Help your young artist learn all about tints and shades while creating a piece of art to celebrate Valentine's Day.

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

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

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

You've heard all about oil spills, but can they really be that bad? After all, vegetable oil is in almost every yummy baking good from cookies to brownies.

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

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.