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This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

Crafting a valentine mailbox is the perfect way to get your child ready for Valentine's Day. Now no heartfelt mail will get lost in the shuffle!

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

This recipe provides a quicker, easier, and slightly healthier way to prepare this classic Louisiana Creole dish.

Watch your first grader marvel at how fun and simple it is to turn ordinary potatoes into custom shamrock stamps.

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.

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

Learn how to make paper Christmas trees with this simple craft. See how to make paper Christmas trees and celebrate the holiday season.

Help your child stay physically and mentally active with this group aerobic fitness game that's good for the heart and mind alike.

A homemade coat of arms is a great way to get your child thinking about your family's values, and it makes a fun addition to the costume box as well!

Play this game to help froggie hop home...and teach the number line to your kindergartener while you're at it!

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

Have a blast celebrating the poetic prose of Dr. Seuss as you hop your way to better vocabulary and reading skills. Play Hop on Pop Hopscotch!

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

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.

Learn how to make vampire fangs for Halloween costumes and for scary playtime. See how to make vampire fangs with this great upcycled tutorial.

In this activity, your child will learn how to spruce up her bike with an original license plate!

Help your kindergartener practice his shape recognition and develop his fine motor skills by making a scarecrow at home.

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

Kids entranced by Little House on the Prairie? This popsicle stick "log cabin" is a great introduction to pioneer history.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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

Here's a tasty summer holiday treat: oatmeal chocolate chip cookie sandwiches filled with cinnamon ice cream.

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

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!

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.