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

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

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!

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.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

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

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.

Make these simple homemade New Year's gifts with your child this holiday season to give to friends and family, each with a special message inside.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

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

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

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

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

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

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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

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

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

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

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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.

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

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

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

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.