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.

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

Bird watching is a fun way for kids to learn about Mother Nature. Make a bird feeder, a bird house, and binoculars and you can attract birds and watch them!

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Promote the well-being of your first or second grader's mind and body by teaching him some beginning yoga poses and techniques.

Your first grader will love making her favorite feline a chase toy out of old fabric scraps, and she will learn beginning sewing basics while she's at it!

Your kindergartener will improve his fine motor skills and learn beginning baking techniques as he helps you concoct this crumbly apple dessert!

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

If your first grader has a hard time practicing his vocabulary skills, introduce him to this fun word building game.

Here's a simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

In kindergarten, your child spent lots of time counting things one by one. But in first grade, he'll need to be able to count in groups, especially by fives.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Playing doctor is not only fun, it's also a way to teach kids about the parts of the body and how they are spelled.

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

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

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!

Challenge your kindergartener to finding out if a coin toss is really fair by conducting this coin toss experiment.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

Here's a TV you won't mind your kids staring at for hours. When kids are in charge of the programming, it's hard to see it as anything but educational!

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

Playing the Number Sentence Game with your child gives him the opportunity to practice ordering and comparing numbers using symbols.

Celebrate Ramadan by creating a crescent moon and star...out of stars! This craft is the perfect way to introduce your child to an important national symbol.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Help your child get the hang of reading with this fun activity. Here's how to make a spinning phonics wheel out of two paper plates.