Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

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

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

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

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

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.

Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

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:

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!