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

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

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

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

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

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

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!

This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

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

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

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

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

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

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

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

Make grammar interesting for kinders, with this fun take on charades. They'll practice verbs and get in some giggles, too!