Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

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

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.

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

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

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

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 you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

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.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

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

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

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

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.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

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