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

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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.

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

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

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.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

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

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

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

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

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

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

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

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

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

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

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.

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

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.