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In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Find out whether we can create motion in a dish and as a result, create a wonderful and colorful show.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

Water can go from solid to liquid to gas...but how does popcorn go from kernel to snack? Invite your first grade scientist to find out.

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

This craft is an excellent way to learn about African-American history, and it also provides fine motor practice.

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

This homemade snare drum made with everyday household items gets its authentic rattle sound from paper clips and tin.

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

Does the idea of taking your child to an art museum sound daunting? Create your own museum and give your child some practice with shapes!

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.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Here's a fun activity to get your kindergarten child to listen to beginning alphabet sounds and match them with their letter symbols.

Practicing letters and words by writing them out is all well and good, but spelling out your practice words with old puzzle pieces is a lot more fun!

Picking words out can be tricky. In this early reading activity, your child will place letter markers on a grid to make words appear out of the jumble.

This cut-out craft makes an elegant Mother's Day gift.

Act out the Three Billy Goats Gruff with this adorable paper plate mask.

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

Let your preschooler play with her food by making snack logs out of celery, peanut butter and corn flakes.

Make these edible dreidels out of marshmallows, pretzels and chocolate chips for Hanukkah.

Stamp out the sameness of learning the ABC's for your kindergartener. Make 26 letter sponge stamps and create projects with him to practice.

Make your own Matryoshka out of simple craft materials in this easy how-to!

Celebrate Earth Day with a decorative tree made out of strictly reused and recycled materials.

Making food sculptures boosts creativity, and just might help your picky eater branch out!

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

Make a roaring rocket ship toy out of a paper towel roll and some tissue paper.