Make a "Fish Story" Cartoon
Use recycled household materials to make this creative "story cartoon" tray that can help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!
Play "I Caught You!" An Early Reading Game
Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.
Crazy Eights With Word Families!
Make and play a Crazy Eights-inspired card game with your kindergartner to help boost her understanding of phonics and word families.
Make a Name Puzzle
Preschoolers love to scribble. But they might not understand yet that letters need to be put together in a certain order to make words. This activity will help teach that... and give your kid her very own name puzzle, too!
Play Alphabet Tag
Kids get in lots of letter learning as they play this fun twist on regular tag, which engages their minds as well as their bodies.
Write Oulipo N+7
Meant to be fun and inspiring, N+7 and Oulipo methods challenge writers to recycle writing, use new language and it enriches vocabulary, spelling and critical thinking.
Bean Bag Challenges
Beanbags are one of the most useful learning tools you can find. The low cost and seemingly endless instant activities make beanbags a good choice for learning and having fun! Try some of our favorite educational bean bag challenges.
Practice Story-Telling with Fairy Tale Dice
Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your child to weave fantastic fairy tales! Not only will this help your child learn about story sequencing, but he'll also get practice building up his reading and writing skills.
Homonym Beanbag Toss
Homonyms are those tricky little words that tend to confound early learners. Help your second grader ace the challenge with this rousing outdoor game.
Digraph Bingo
Digraphs are letter pairs like "sh" and "ch" that together make a single sound. Learning them can be tricky for new readers, but this bingo game makes it easy...and fun!
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