This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

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

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.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

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

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

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

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!

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!

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

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

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

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.