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.

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

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

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

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.

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!

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

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.

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

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

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

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

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

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

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

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

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

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

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!