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

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

This homemade alphabet game will keep your kindergartener on his toes and help him practice letter, numbers, and taking turns. The whole family can participate!

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

Kids are acutely aware of what's "fair" and what's not. Here's a quirky way to teach your first grader the importance of voting and democracy.

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

Magnets may hold up papers on the fridge, but is it the paper that attracts them? Find out more with this kindergarten science investigation.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

This flannel board will give your child hands-on practice with math, but in a fun format, full of ladybugs.

Fire up the grill, break out the raffia and get crafty with flowers--it's time to learn how to throw your own luau!