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

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

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

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

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!

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

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

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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

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.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

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

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

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

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!

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!

Salute your "#1 Dad" with this creative pop-up card!

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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

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!

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!

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

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.

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

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.