Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

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

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Make these simple homemade New Year's gifts with your child this holiday season to give to friends and family, each with a special message inside.

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

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!

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:

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Make a tooth care poster with your kindergartener to help her understand how important it is to take care of those growing pearly whites!

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

Here's a sweet gift you and your child can make together, sure to please the most finicky valentine.

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

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

Save some money on the decorations with this simple birthday banner that your child can make himself!

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Rewriting this classic Christmas carol will spark your child's creativity while strengthening his familiarity with grammar and style elements.

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

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

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

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!