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.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

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

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

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

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.

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

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

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

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!

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.

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!

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

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

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!

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

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!

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

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

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.

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!

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!

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

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 "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.