The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

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.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Does your child know all the greatest kid-friendly places in town? Here's an activity that lets them create a cool city guide and work their writing chops, too!

This flash card game will help your child memorize words while visually learning the differences between objects.

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

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

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.

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

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!

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

Got a kid who's learning to read? Looking for a new board game to add to the bunch? With a little help from your child, you can make a game of your own!

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

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

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

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

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!