Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

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

Draw letter people with your child to help her take a closer look at the letters, and see the differences between them.

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 design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

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.

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

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

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

This fun and educational Halloween craft is a fantastic way to celebrate the holiday while building your child's letter and phonics skills.

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

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Let your child play with scissors! Put them to work, creating a book that will keep them busy, and help them practice their letters, too.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

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

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.