Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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!

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

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

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

This activity turns kids into word detectives - scouring their way through documents in search of their prey.

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

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

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

Make a fuzzy bear with your kindergartener to build up early reading skills and introduce her to phonics.

Your little one can welcome the reindeer with an adorable reindeer portrait all while learning the difference between small, medium and large.

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

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

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

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.

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Here's an adorable kindergarten refrigerator magnet that celebrates the glories of the letter "B" and benefits your early reader.

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

Make a textured name plate to hang on your preschooler's door!

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

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

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

Build a peek-a-boo book and give your child a fun vocabulary and reading boost, on the fly!

In this activity, your kid will cut rectangles, circles and triangles to create a portrait of the jolliest man of them all: Santa Claus!

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

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

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

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