Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

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!

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

Want to help your child learn more about his community while boosting creativity? Set up a post office play station right in your very own home!

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

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.

What IS That Thing? is a game for kids of all ages that uses scrap paper and junk from around the house! A great way to recycle, reduce, and reuse.

Avoid holiday card clutter by arranging cards into an artfully simple display: pin them to a length of yarn with classic wooden clothespins.

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

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

This science project lets kids explore what happens when water and paper interact, and it produces homemade paper perfect for gift tags or stationery.

Make sweet personalized invitations for a laid-back pumpkin carving party.

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

Simon Says is a classic outdoor game that young children love. Promote your child's development and improve listening skills by playing the game in a new way.

Set up a fun guessing game for your curious kindergartener, one that will test her ability to use all five of her senses.

This fun outdoor game will help your child develop her addition and subtraction skills and teach her basic arithmetic while keeping her active.

In this fun activity, your child will learn the difference between facts and opinions. They will design cards for a matching game that they create and play!

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

Pump up the learning level of your kindergartener's summer break by playing patriotic bingo when July 4th rolls around.

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

Your preschooler is familiar with the colors in their crayon box, but can they find these colors in the world? Take them on a scavenger hunt to find out!

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.

Use this fun spin-off of Bingo to help your child practice number recognition and listening skills!

Encourage imagination and creativity with this magical craft that lets your child make and design his very own dragon egg.

Does your child have trouble holding a pencil? Is writing an excruciating task? The key is to build up those hand muscles! This water relay race can help.

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.

This incredibly edible activity gives kindergarteners the chance to practice identifying, copying and extending basic patterns.

Do this fun activity that uses stickers to help your kindergartener with counting, basic addition, and one-to-one correspondence.

Make a "magic dough" using only flour, water and food coloring and have the kids guess what color appears.

Sorting objects by size, color, shape, or function is an important concept in kindergarten math, and it's the perfect excuse for a little housekeeping!