Make a fuzzy bear with your kindergartener to build up early reading skills and introduce her to phonics.

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Your little one can welcome the reindeer with an adorable reindeer portrait all while learning the difference between small, medium and large.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

In this creative arts and crafts activity, children will design and create their very own alphabet tree!

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Here's an adorable kindergarten refrigerator magnet that celebrates the glories of the letter "B" and benefits your early reader.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

In this activity, create a poem that emerges from the collaboration of parent and teen in the activity of observing, discussing, reading, and writing.

The goal of this science fair project is to evaluate the effect of heat on sound wave frequency.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

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

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

This science fair project idea raises awareness of a real ecological issue.

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Make a textured name plate to hang on your preschooler's door!

Create your own set of alphabet blocks: you can make just a few or all 26.