In these three games, children work on letter recognition skills with the help of some tape, music, and a few stuffed animal friends.

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

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

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

In this creative arts and crafts activity, children will design and create their very own alphabet tree!

Decorate eggs for Easter without the mess by making an Easter egg collage instead in this preschool arts and crafts activity.

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

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.

This improv exercise helps actors learn how to recover if another actor forgets their lines or goes off script, but it can also be a rainy day activity!

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

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

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways

Got a kid who's learning to read? Looking for a new board game to add to the bunch? With a little help from your child, you can make a game of your own!

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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.

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 alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

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

This activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

If your kid likes to color, you probably know all too well that crayons go quickly. Put those crayon stubs to use by creating colorful ironed wax paper art!

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

This activity will have your child learning about dependent and independent clauses, not to mention the punctuation that goes in the middle.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

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

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.