Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

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.

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

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

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

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

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.

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

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

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

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

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

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

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

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

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.