Draw a Fairy Tale Map
See how far imagination can go when your child flexes reading comprehension muscle with a map drawing of her favorite tale!
Unplug Yourself with a "Little House" Dinner
The "Little House" books are a popular series with adults and kids alike. In this activity, you'll start a book club with your family and then plan a themed dinner based on the "Little House" books. It's a guaranteed good time for everyone!
Make Paper Mache Characters
Help your child create his favorite characters out of papier-mache, for hours of craft and puppet show entertainment!
Build Vocabulary with Prefixes and Suffixes
Learning prefixes and suffixes is a great way to boost vocabulary quickly. And these letter combos are best learned in the context of the words that they create. Here's an easy game to get your child thinking about these beginnings and endings, in between a lot of shouting and laughing.
Paper Plate Phonics
Keep the reading wheels turning with this fun activity that helps kids practice blending letters and word endings into words.
Make a Textured Name Plate
Make a textured name plate with your preschooler to hang on her door. She'll practice letter recognition and be able to claim her own space in the house!
Play Contraction Concentration!
A contraction is an abbreviated form of two words. It contains an apostrophe which indicates that there are missing letters. Help your child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game.
Take the Portmanteau Challenge!
Want a fun word game to play? How about just a creative, fun way to spend the afternoon? Create words with your child that splice two words together: like "brunch" or "liger" or something totally silly!
Step Inside the Story!
Help your young reader remember the important details from the last book he read. Let your child step into the man character's shoes as he keeps track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal. The next book report will be a breeze!
Play Tape Letter Learning Games
In preschool, letter learning is the name of the game, and there's no end to fun and easy ways to practice. In this activity, you and your child can play several different games with taped down letters to help reinforce letter recognition while playing.
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