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"?

This fall-themed missing letter activity is a great way to help your child learn the alphabet, build their vocabulary and bolster letter recognition skills.

This simple game isn't just a diversion, it teaches your child to identify the incorrect word within a familiar verse.

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!

If your first grader has a hard time practicing his vocabulary skills, introduce him to this fun word building game.

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

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Help your kid create a patriotic red, white, and blue flag banner! On each flag have him write a different word that describes our veterans or fallen soldiers.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

This science fair project introduces children to static electricity and the idea that electricity is more than lights and plugs.

Introduce colors to shadow play with this creative and irresistible science activity!

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Practicing letters and words by writing them out is all well and good, but spelling out your practice words with old puzzle pieces is a lot more fun!

Avoid holiday card clutter by arranging cards into an artfully simple display: pin them to a length of yarn with classic wooden clothespins.

Help your child build her very own science laboratory at home for experiments and science projects. This is a quick, easy, and fun educational tool!

Help your child explore their imagination and self-image with a larger-than-life-size self-portrait!

Get into the Halloween spirit by creating creepy (but cute) spiders from paper egg cartons, paint, and pipe cleaners.

In this science fair project, young children notice and track changes in trees throughout the year.

Make a rainbow chain for St. Patrick's day to introduce your child to Roy G. Biv.

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

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will create a goal board and practice setting one goal for an assignment or task and the steps they will need to achieve it.

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

Your child grows a green thumb and flowers with this seed planting activity that also celebrates the 100th day of school!

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