Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Make a First Day of School Mobile to help commemorate the big step from preschool to kindergarten and ease those first day jitters!

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

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

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

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

This reading activity combines some of the most common sight words with a pictograph puzzle that's sure to keep your kindergartener engaged.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

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:

Help your child make sense of our colorful world with this easy-to-make color challenge!

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

Geared toward kindergarten and first grade learners, The Weather Inside is a fun activity to help help children understand and process their emotions in a healthy way.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

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

Master reading numbers aloud with your first grader in this math card game.

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

Picking words out can be tricky. In this early reading activity, your child will place letter markers on a grid to make words appear out of the jumble.

Even your first grader can get involved in the lighting of the Kwanzaa Kinara with this clever flameless Kinara project!

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

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

Help your first grader make a coin bank that builds connections to early reading and math. And build good saving habits, too!

Rhymes are all around us! Get your kid in on this game of simple rhyming words. She'll match up cards with rhyming words and pictures on them.

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!

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

Invite your kindergartener or first grader to make giant, soft building blocks. He'll have a blast constructing, throwing, stacking, and even falling on them!

While you whip up mashed potatoes for your next dinner party, your first grader and friends can stay occupied by crafting their own silly spud characters.