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

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

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

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

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.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

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.

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

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

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

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.

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

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

Here's a sweet gift you and your child can make together, sure to please the most finicky valentine.

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

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

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

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.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

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.