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.

This Thanksgiving, make a pine cone turkey that can double as a personalized place setting for each family member.

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.

Play this homophone game with your child the next time you sit down with them to read a story and help them build some valuable reading 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:

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

Teach your first grade scientist the difference between liquids and solids using maple syrup.

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

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!

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

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

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

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

This Thanksgiving table runner craft isn't just fun and festive, it also helps your child build muscles for hand strength, fine motor skills, and handwriting.

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!

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days