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

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

Help your child make a picture of a four-leaf clover this St. Patrick's Day. It's thought that whoever finds a four-leaf clover will enjoy good luck!

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!

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Here's a great activity to help learners satisfy their snow play cravings in a cozy indoor setting!

With a few strokes of white paint, kids can transform an old family photograph into a lovely winter scene in this kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

Brrrrr! It's chilly outside. Now's the perfect time to create a snow globe. But, don't worry, you don't need glass for this dome.

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

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

Celebrate autumn by making a beautiful pastel art piece with corn as its theme.

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.

Using cardboard and duct tape, you can make a durable Father's Day frame that Dad can hang anywhere from his workbench to the office!

Make a passport suitcase and keep track of all the places you've traveled together as a family. Here's how:

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Celebrate Mexican heritage and inspire creativity in your budding artist with this unique arts and crafts activity.

Lead your first grader on a nature walk ... with a scavenger hunt-style twist! They'll try to capture photos that correspond to paint chip colors.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

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

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

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

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

In this fun, magical art activity, children paint an invisible picture that is only revealed when covered with watercolors.

Put old, worn-out picture books to work by constructing a book birdhouse, perfect for welcoming spring.

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!