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.

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

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

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

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.

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!

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

In this activity, your child will be given images that portray different perspectives or emotions. Your child will practice empathy by coloring and drawing what each person may have been thinking or feeling.

Rhymes are all around us! Get your kid in on this game of simple rhyming words. She'll match up cards with rhyming words and pictures on them.

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

Playing doctor is not only fun, it's also a way to teach kids about the parts of the body and how they are spelled.

This St. Patrick's-themed color game reinforces your kindergartener's recognition of green objects, and also gives her reading and listening skills a work out.

Here's an idea for an edible Father's Day "note" that also happens to give your second grader practice in using a fancy new tool: the thesaurus.

This simple art project will help your child think of nice words to say that come from the heart.

Celebrate the 100th Day of School by making a collage frame that can showcase your childâs favorite piece of art.

Help your kindergartener's handwriting, hand strength and coordination by making a "stress ball" from this homemade, nontoxic "silly squeezy putty."

Can you imagine a sky filled with bright, colorful bubbles? Make this whimsical scene come alive with bubble science!

Learn how to count in Spanish. Your child will practice her numbers and build her reading skills while learning a bit about Latino culture along the way.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Sometimes a sandwich is just ho hum boring. Help your kid make lunch fun by threading her favorite ingredients on a skewer for a quick and easy sandwich kabob.