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.

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:

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

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

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

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

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

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!

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

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 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!

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

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.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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.

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 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.

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

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

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

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

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

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

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

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

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.

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