Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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!

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

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

The objective of this science fair project is to explore the relationship between acidic and basic compounds.

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!

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

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."

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

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

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

Here's a sweet gift you and your child can make together, sure to please the most finicky valentine.

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

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.

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!