In these three games, children work on letter recognition skills with the help of some tape, music, and a few stuffed animal friends.

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

Here are some kindergarten readiness activities that you can do with reused plastic bottle caps.

Improve your preschooler's knowledge of the alphabet by playing games with your own homemade wooden letters!

This improv exercise helps actors learn how to recover if another actor forgets their lines or goes off script, but it can also be a rainy day activity!

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

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

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

This activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

This activity will have your child learning about dependent and independent clauses, not to mention the punctuation that goes in the middle.

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

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.

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

In this activity, you will create a magical box to help your child learn her letter sounds. Here's how to play the Abracadabra learning game!

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

Make grammar interesting for kinders, with this fun take on charades. They'll practice verbs and get in some giggles, too!

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.