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!

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

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

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.

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

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

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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!

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:

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

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!

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

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

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

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