Show your child how to spell their name in a whole new way with this sculptural 3-D art project.

Here's a delightful activity that uses your child's name to help him improve his writing skills.

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Challenge your budding wordsmith to see how many words he can make out of his own name, using homemade flashcards.

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!

Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.

Here's a color matching game that is perfect for winter! Your child will race against the clock to assemble the name of a color with its matching parts.

Turn printed family photos into a sturdy "flash card" game to help your child learn the names and faces of near and distant relatives.

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

Make candy hearts this Valentine's Day. This heart-y project helps your little one practice handwriting skills and encourages creativity.

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

This children's menorah is a fun craft that lets your child celebrate Hanukkah while learning their ABCs. Make this children's menorah for the Festival of Lights.

Here's a fun activity to get your kindergarten child to listen to beginning alphabet sounds and match them with their letter symbols.

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.

Pasta makes a good dinner, but it can also be used to teach proper letter formation! In this easy crafts activity, you'll use pasta and glue to form letters.

Head out to the driveway, ball in hand, for a bouncing challenge. Then use those results to make a colorful graph that lets your child compare results.

Help your child add her own silly charm to a pair of traditional chopsticks.

Your first grader will delight in making a cookie version of homemade gelt--the gold coin chocolates that are often given as gifts or prizes during Hanukkah.

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!

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!

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Stamp out the sameness of learning the ABC's for your kindergartener. Make 26 letter sponge stamps and create projects with him to practice.

This construction paper activity helps your child to assemble a variety of emotions on a face so she can recognize how she and everyone around her is feeling.

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

Winter is a great time to create a textured polar bear. Not only will your child gain practice identifying shapes, they'll also work on fine motor skills.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

Have your kid create a chart of job titles. It's a great way to get them to recognize the people whose efforts benefit the community.

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