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

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.

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

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

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!

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 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!

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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

Got a kid who's learning to read? Looking for a new board game to add to the bunch? With a little help from your child, you can make a game of your own!

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