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

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.

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.

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

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

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

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!

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

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

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Here's a sweet gift you and your child can make together, sure to please the most finicky valentine.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

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

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.

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 tooth care poster with your kindergartener to help her understand how important it is to take care of those growing pearly whites!

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

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

Rewriting this classic Christmas carol will spark your child's creativity while strengthening his familiarity with grammar and style elements.

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

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

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!

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

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

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

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

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