Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

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

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

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.

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.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

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

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

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.

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

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

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

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

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

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

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

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

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:

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

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.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

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.

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

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

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

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.