Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

It's easy to turn old magazines into a fast-and-furious finding game that's both fun and educational for kids.

Does your child have trouble holding a pencil? Is writing an excruciating task? The key is to build up those hand muscles! This water relay race can help.

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

Use two toilet paper rolls to make a pair of homemade binoculars and let the games begin. Here's how:

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

This project reuses freebie magnets to make one-of-a-kind magnets for your one-of-a-kind kid!

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

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

This Thanksgiving, make a pine cone turkey that can double as a personalized place setting for each family member.

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.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

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

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.

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

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 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!

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

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

Want to capture this year? Make a time capsule of this period in your child's life! You may just be surprised at what you find, when you dig it up next year...

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

This Thanksgiving table runner craft isn't just fun and festive, it also helps your child build muscles for hand strength, fine motor skills, and handwriting.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days