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

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.

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

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

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

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

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

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

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

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!

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f