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.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

Give your child an introduction to food preservation by making and canning your own yummy, homemade pasta sauce!

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

Children will reflect on the importance of diversity and brainstorm ways to support people in their community who may feel alone, researching local organizations that strive to help those people.

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

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

Create a sun-shaped summer words chart in this DIY craft activity!

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

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

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

This flash card game will help your child memorize words while visually learning the differences between objects.

In this fun activity, your child will learn the difference between facts and opinions. They will design cards for a matching game that they create and play!

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Most kids love to play spy. Here's a way to have fun with mysterious codes while mastering an ordinary, necessary skill: first grade spelling.

In this project, learn about animal vision and different kinds of eyes: ocelli, compound eyes, and camera eyes. Find out what a jellyfish or grasshopper sees!

Mad Libs are fun, but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story!

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

Enjoy the fragrant scents of the holiday season with this pomander activity. A perfect arts and crafts project for preschool or kindergarten age children.

Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.

Most parents probably wouldn't mind subtracting 8-9 years off their age. Here's a fun third grade subtraction activity that may do just that.

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.

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