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!

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

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.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

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 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.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

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

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

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

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.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

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!

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

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

Holiday thank you cards show friends and family that you appreciate them. Make a batch of holiday thank you cards with your child this winter.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Here is a fun holiday exercise to reinforce your grade-schooler's understanding of adjectives from adverbs while she's away on winter break!

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

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

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!

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