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

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

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.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.