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.

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

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

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

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

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

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

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.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

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!

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

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.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Make grammar interesting for kinders, with this fun take on charades. They'll practice verbs and get in some giggles, too!

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

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

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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!

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

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

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

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

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

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

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.