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

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

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!

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite 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.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Make a textured name plate to hang on your preschooler's door!

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

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

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

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

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

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

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

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

Improve your preschooler's knowledge of the alphabet by playing games with your own homemade wooden letters!

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.

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

This scavenger hunt game is simple, but it's fun, and it will arm your children with the directional vocabulary they should master in time for kindergarten.

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

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!

Introduce your preschooler to patterns in this arts and craft activity that uses household materials to create and paint scratch prints.

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

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

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

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.