Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.

Kids get in lots of letter learning as they play this fun twist on regular tag, which engages their minds as well as their bodies.

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

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

This reading activity combines some of the most common sight words with a pictograph puzzle that's sure to keep your kindergartener engaged.

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

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

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

These bean bag games are a fun and inexpensive way to keep your child learning! Work on social skills, coordination, math, or even spelling!

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

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 you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

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

Create a sun-shaped summer words chart in this DIY craft activity!

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

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

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

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:

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

In this fun activity, your child will learn the difference between facts and opinions. They will design cards for a matching game that they create and play!

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.

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.

Most kids love to play spy. Here's a way to have fun with mysterious codes while mastering an ordinary, necessary skill: first grade spelling.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Does a paper clip float? Does a sponge sink? Let your child find out! This experiment is simple science fun.

Enjoy the fragrant scents of the holiday season with this pomander activity. A perfect arts and crafts project for preschool or kindergarten age children.