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

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.

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

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

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

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

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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

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

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

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

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math 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:

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

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!

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.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

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!

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

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.

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.