Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

While you are waiting for the real stuff, this activity lets your child play in pretend "snow" while practicing reading skills and learning about magnets.

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.

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

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.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

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

Want to do something a little different for Dad this year? Have your child design his very own Father's Day "Greatest Hits CD" card.

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 to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

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.

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your child busy, while helping them recognize letters in a creative way.

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

Save some money on the decorations with this simple birthday banner that your child can make himself!

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.