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Use a basic tape recorder and some favorite books to help your first grader read smoothly--and make someone's day in the process!

Celebrate your child's first day of kindergarten with this arts and crafts activity: make a SchultÃte, a cardboard cone filled with candy and other goodies!

Get ready for Halloween with a pumpkin mask made from construction paper!

Full of charm and creative possibilities, this fun hat will be ready for playtime in no time.

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

Ready for takeoff! Make science fun and teach about levers and fulcrums as your child sends buttons flying.

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

This game provides your child with the opportunity to create, write, and read numbers.

Before you get ready for a delicious scramble or omelet, add a bit of science to your morning routine!

Are you ready to be a detective for science? Then get out your magnifying glass and start studying fingerprints!

Is your kindergartener having trouble picking outfits for the rapidly cooling weather? This handy dressing wheel makes getting ready a breeze!

Help your child make an imaginative, inexpensive spaceship from recycled materials. When the spaceship is ready, count backwards from ten and then BLAST-OFF!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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

This craft activity encourages kindergarteners to explore measuring. Get ready to measure the fun that your child will have creating his own ruler!

Get ready for a yummy taste test! Just pour the milk -- and make sure you have some chocolate chip cookies on hand.

On a hot afternoon there is nothing better than a cold drink. Instead of making lemonade, your child can have lemon ice cubes ready to munch!

These DIY coasters are an easy-peasy, activity for small hands to manage, and a good way to get ready for summer, when cold drinks abound.

Celebrate Easter, or just about any day, with a candy necklace. Grab your favorite candies, a string of yarn and get ready to make a yummy, colorful treat!

Have an empty cereal box you're ready to toss in the bin? Help your child recycle that box into some wacky glasses in this fun craft!

Get ready for leftovers with an adorable turkey lunch bag! This recycled craft is a great way to remind everyone how much fun they had on Thanksgiving.

Warm up your little one's counting skills with this adorable winter number-match game. Play until she's warmed up and ready to count all on her own!

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

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.

These Halloween drink ideas will get you ready to set up a spooky beverage bar. These kid-friendly Halloween drink ideas are perfect for a spooky party.

Mix fun with basic math in this fun homemade game of ring toss! Make rings out of paper plates and you're ready to play anytime, anywhere!

If your 2nd grade child asks for time often, encourage him to read time on his own by talking about time throughout the day.

Make learning to read even more fun for kids by creating an accordion learning book filled with fun transportation pictures.

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: