Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

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

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

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

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

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

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

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

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

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

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!

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."

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

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

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

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

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.

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

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

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

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

Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

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.

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: