Showing Results for decoding regular words

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!

If using regular watercolors is getting a little dry, liven things up by using salt to create a beautiful painting with unique crystal texture!

This activity uses the signs and words kids see around them every day, to create a book they can read on their own.

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.

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

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:

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

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.

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.

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!

Try this kindergarten arts and crafts activity: create holiday-themed designs on fabric using fabric crayons and an old iron.

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

Your preschooler will have a great time painting on a foil background to create a stunning, shiny work of art!

Here's a quick and easy recipe for homemade play dough that doesn't involve any cooking! This bright and colorful modeling clay makes a great instant toy!

Encourage your child's creativity by giving him a new kind of paintbrush -- a feather!

Here's a preschool activity to help your child get a head start on his day: make car-shaped toast slathered with his favorite topping.

Get active at home by pretending to be different animals! Use this fun and engaging activity to move your body, get silly, and practice gross motor skills.

Try this fun preschool arts and crafts activity: make art by grating colored chalk over a sheet of buttermilk-painted paper. Watch as it sparkles!

Create fun and imaginative works of art by using trucks to paint on paper in this preschool arts and crafts activity.

Sneak some vitamin-packed greens into your homemade popsicles for a frozen summer treat thatâs both delicious and nutritious

Crayon hearts add some Valentine's Day fun to your child's coloring pages. Make a set of crayons hearts as a beautiful gift for your child or a friend.

Forget markers or crayons. For a really unusual art project, close the art supply cabinet, and crack open the pantry! Use rice to make pictures.

Brighten up your home with this fun activity! Make a summer sun print and teach your child the art of easy print making.

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

Help your preschooler or preschooler with shape recognition, math, and matching by creating your own personal shapes cards, good for home or car.

Dig up some dinos while promoting curiosity and sensory skills in this hands-on activity that will have your child searching for prehistoric treasure!

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

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

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

Have your little astronaut create her own crater-filled moon with this fun craft project that encourages learning about the final frontier.