Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

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

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.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

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

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

Confused about clauses? Get the concept to stick by helping your middle schooler make mix-and-match poetry dice filled with independent and dependent clauses.

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.

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

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's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

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

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

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 second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

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

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

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

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

Gourd painting is a fun fall activity that makes for perfect Thanksgiving decorations. Try gourd painting with your child for some seasonal fun this autumn.

Here's an activity that takes fourth grade reading and writing skills beyond the classroom to offer a warm welcome to a new neighbor.