Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Not only is homemade wrapping paper pretty, but by experimenting with decorative tools, kids are also doing science, art, and small-motor muscle building.

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Promote the well-being of your first or second grader's mind and body by teaching him some beginning yoga poses and techniques.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Invite your child to craft dream cloud magnets to display their hopes and visions for the future!

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

This is a simple, nutritious food kids love for snacks and lunches all year.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Make this dragon relief with your first grader to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and teach her about an important part of Chinese culture.

This simple sewing activity results in a pair of homemade fleece mittens!

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Teach your first grade scientist the difference between liquids and solids using maple syrup.

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Declare a "Pocket Day" in your house and help your child practice his addition skills as he counts how many pockets the family is wearing that day!

Kids are acutely aware of what's "fair" and what's not. Here's a quirky way to teach your first grader the importance of voting and democracy.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

The purpose of this science fair project is to explore whether UV light passes through some colors and not others by looking at blue, red, purple, and clear.

In this hands-on craft project, kids will make an analog clock of their own, and then use it to learn how to tell time.