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.
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.
Branch Out: Create an Alphabet Tree
Help your child to begin a life long love of the printed word by connecting simple letter recognition exercises with alphabet trees!
Guess My Word: A Vocab Game
Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your second grader.
Make Peek-a-Boo Books
Does your preschooler love to play hide-and-seek? Is he always trying to name things he doesn't know the words for? Then this is the activity for you! Build a peek-a-boo book and give your child a fun vocabulary and reading boost, on the fly!
Phonics Treasure Hunt
Fun and challenging, this energetic treasure hunt helps kindergartners learn letter sounds.
The Build-a-Word Card Game: Better than Go Fish!
Compound words may look hard at first, but things get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know. Want to add a little "holy moly!" to something that can feel ho hum? This card game will help you practice making compound words-- and have some fun while you're at it!
Turn Your Child into a Letter Detective!
This activity turns kids into word detectives-- scouring their way through the newspaper in search of their alphabet prey.
Rudolph the Red Nosed Mad Libs!
Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a great writing tool--the thesaurus!
Go on an Alphabet Photo Shoot
Most preschoolers love to pretend. You can use this to your advantage, with an activity that will make them feel all grown up. As your child plays photographer, snapping pictures around the yard, he'll also be practicing recognizing letter sounds, which will help him learn to read.
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