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 need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

Help your child learn the language of mathematics through cupcakes with this fun counting activity.

Help your child develop his counting and language skills with this fun activity. He'll be a number hero for a day and learn about safety while he's at it.

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!

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.

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:

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!

You kid can count from one to ten, no problem. They can even do it backward. Work on their addition and subtraction skills with this fun fruit picking activity.

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

This easy painting activity feels magical, especially when you use it for a secret message.

Your kid and his friends will have a blast taking turns playing the role of a traffic cop in this Labor Day version of the classic game Red Light, Green Light.

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

Kids learn how to play Jan-Ken-Pon, Japanese rock-paper-scissors, in this fun preschool activity.

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.

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

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

Here are some kindergarten readiness activities that you can do with reused plastic bottle caps.

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

Make a hand-decorated pillowcase to help ease the bedtime battle so that everyone can get a night of sweet dreams.

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

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.

When your child is itching for a game, consider ditching Hide and Seek in favor of Shape and Seek. Here's how it works:

Have your child make a special mobile inspired by the weather outside. Learn about seasons, the environment, and art in 3D.

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

Boost your child's early literacy skills and create alphabet tiles she can play and practice with - great reinforcement for ABC's, phonics and writing!

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.