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.

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

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

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.

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

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

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

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

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:

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

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.

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

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

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

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!

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

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.

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