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

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

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!

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Let your child play with scissors! Put them to work, creating a book that will keep them busy, and help them practice their letters, too.

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

Draw letter people with your child to help her take a closer look at the letters, and see the differences between them.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

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

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

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

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

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!

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

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

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

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

Make a tooth care poster with your kindergartener to help her understand how important it is to take care of those growing pearly whites!

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.