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Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

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.

Spend an afternoon outdoors and add a personal touch to clothes or other items of fabric by learning how to tie-dye.

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

These quick and easy pumpkin quesadillas are as delicious as they are nutritious. Celebrate Fall and the wonder squash that is the pumpkin!

Make a "feeling meter" that helps your first grader read key feeling words and communicate his emotions accurately to you.

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

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

Delight your child by helping them to construct a boat that can hold two seaworthy toy figures in this engaging project made from upcycled water bottles.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Children get creative with this fun, imaginative activity that combines an upcycled everyday household item with a few craft supplies.

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

Practice early social studies skills and get your child excited about the new school year with this fun activity.

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!

Learn how to make fairy wings with these easy instructions. See how to make fairy wings for Halloween or dress-up time.

Say thanks this Thanksgiving by surprising a friend, a teacher or a grandparent with this paper plate turkey which doubles as a festive wall hanging.

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

Help your kindergartener use a map to find "leprechaun gold"--and build early social studies skills in the process!

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

This fun art activity will get your child's creative juices flowing and will teach her about shapes, pattern and texture along the way.

Here is a way to help your first grader keep track of the books she has read, and also help her develop some critical thinking skills.

These simple yet stylish place cards will dazzle your guests and make fun conversation starters at dinner.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Let your child help you create a fire escape plan poster to hang in the house in case of an emergency!

Fire up the grill, break out the raffia and get crafty with flowers--it's time to learn how to throw your own luau!

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

Invite your child, and any other kids attending the Seder, to help you make this "hands on" matzah cover for Passover this year.

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