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

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!

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

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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:

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

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

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

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.

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

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.