Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

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

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

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.

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

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

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

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

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

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

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