By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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

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

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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

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

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

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.

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

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

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

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

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

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Practice reading with this fun game, where your first grader will "hunt" for hidden words around the house.

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

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension 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.

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.

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