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

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

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Create your own set of alphabet blocks: you can make just a few or all 26.

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

Make your own personalized set of letter flash cards to get him thinking about the alphabet while boosting his fine motor skills in the process.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

The purpose of this science project is to investigate which will grow larger plants: compost, soil and Miracle - Gro, a mixture of both.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

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

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

Using homemade felt alphabet letters and 26 colorful pictures, your preschooler will have a great time as they practice recognizing letters and their sounds.

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.