Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

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.

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

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

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!

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Looking for Father's Day inspiration? Make him a "card" he can wear...and build up your kindergartener's reading skills while you're at it.

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

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

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

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

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

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

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

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

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

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

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

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.