Make a Santa-shaped "wish card" holder for your child...and sneak in some solid practice in reading and writing, too!

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

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

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

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

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

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

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

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

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.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

Here's a silly game that uses nursery rhymes to introduce a big concept in first grade reading and writing: learning about nouns and verbs.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

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

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.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

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

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

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

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

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

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