Merge the excitement of basketball tournaments with students’ excitement about books! This activity gives kids a chance to read and form opinions about the books.

Build a peek-a-boo book and give your child a fun vocabulary and reading boost, on the fly!

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

Put old, worn-out picture books to work by constructing a book birdhouse, perfect for welcoming spring.

Pump up the learning level of your kindergartener's summer break by playing patriotic bingo when July 4th rolls around.

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

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.

Rainy day? Stuck inside? Here's an arts and crafts pasta project to enjoy with your kindergartener that helps her with math patterns too.

Your kindergartener can contribute these beaded napkin rings to your Thanksgiving table...and sneak in some good math patterning practice, too.

Teach your preschooler some physics that she can relate to with this fun and simple activity!

Using a fruit cereal and yarn, help your preschooler create crunchy, edible patterns.

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

In this science fair project, young children observe, record, and create collections of shapes in their world and increase their powers of observation.

In this science project, young children observe, record, and create collections of colors in their world and increase their powers of observation.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

This activity turns kids into word detectives - scouring their way through documents in search of their prey.

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.

Don't let alphabet practice turn into catching zzz's. Paint up a zany Z zebra and inject a little excitement into learning letters.

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.

This art activity encourages your child to create her own papier-mache apple sculpture to give to a special teacher.

Every day will be a new experience as you explore and learn about the different colors.

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

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

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

Want to make your own version of the Hollywood walk of fame in your own garden? Immortalize your child's handiwork by creating a cement handprint craft.