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

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

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

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.

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

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

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

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

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

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.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

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.

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

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

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

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

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.

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

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

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!