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

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.

Drive away rainy day blues by making a paper tropical fish in bright colors, jazzed up with multi-colored confetti.

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

Help your little one figure out the differences between the worlds of air, land and water, a huge step in understanding how our environment works.

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

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.

This activity turns kids into word detectives - scouring their way through documents in search of their prey.

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

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

Here's Twist 'N Turn: let your preschooler or pre-kindergartener be outside and active while learning about shapes, colors, directions, and word recognition.

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!

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.

Give your child a chance to experiment with how things grow. And throw in something extra to up the fun factor even more...her very own grass pet!

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

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.

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

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

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

It's easy and fun to make puzzles, and your child can pick any design.

Preschoolers can explore shapes and texture in this fun and fantastically messy art project!

Play the fridge magnet name game with your preschooler to help prepare her for kindergarten reading and writing.

Celebrate your little one's move to big kid school by throwing a very special graduation party complete with friends, crafts, and lots of energetic fun.

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

This copying game is like a hopped up version of Simon Says, but it lets kids use their bodies to practice patterning, a key skill in early math.

When it comes to working kids' muscles, nothing beats an obstacle course! Here are some easy ideas for creating your own course at home.

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

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

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