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Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

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.

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!

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.

If using regular watercolors is getting a little dry, liven things up by using salt to create a beautiful painting with unique crystal texture!

This activity uses the signs and words kids see around them every day, to create a book they can read on their own.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Help your child make sense of our colorful world with this easy-to-make color challenge!

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

Picking words out can be tricky. In this early reading activity, your child will place letter markers on a grid to make words appear out of the jumble.

Rhymes are all around us! Get your kid in on this game of simple rhyming words. She'll match up cards with rhyming words and pictures on them.

Practicing letters and words by writing them out is all well and good, but spelling out your practice words with old puzzle pieces is a lot more fun!

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

Craft a winter words alphabet book to celebrate this chilly season in this preschool-kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

This reading activity combines some of the most common sight words with a pictograph puzzle that's sure to keep your kindergartener engaged.

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Improve your kindergartener's vocabulary with this fun, quick, and simple improvisation activity! He'll love acting while practicing directionality words.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Use fun and fuzzy pipe cleaners to help your child learn how to form important letters that make up the words that are the building blocks of phonics.

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

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.

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!

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

Transform paper and clothespins into endearing animal pals with this easy and delightful DIY craft.

Try this kindergarten arts and crafts activity: create holiday-themed designs on fabric using fabric crayons and an old iron.

Toothpaste plus water equals the start to a magical winter paper project.

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

Your preschooler will have a great time painting on a foil background to create a stunning, shiny work of art!