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

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

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

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.

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.

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

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

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!

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!

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.

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 need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

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!

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

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

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

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

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

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

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

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.

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

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

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:

Make grammar interesting for kinders, with this fun take on charades. They'll practice verbs and get in some giggles, too!

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.

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

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

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

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.