Help your child develop her letter recognition skills throughout the week leading up to Valentineâs Day with this simple activity.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

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.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

This scavenger hunt game is simple, but it's fun, and it will arm your children with the directional vocabulary they should master in time for kindergarten.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

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

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

Combine a recycling craft with ABC practice with this homemade foam craft idea.

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!

Boost your child's early literacy skills and create alphabet tiles she can play and practice with - great reinforcement for ABC's, phonics and writing!

Create a glamorous yet easy-to-store puppet stage for your preschooler or pre-kindergartener!

While kids learn when they can see or hear, they learn better when they can touch, too! Get your preschooler's fingers walking the alphabet today!

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!

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

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!

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

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

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

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

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

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.

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

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

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.