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!

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

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

Got a kid who's learning to read? Looking for a new board game to add to the bunch? With a little help from your child, you can make a game of your own!

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

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!

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.

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!

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

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

Make these simple homemade New Year's gifts with your child this holiday season to give to friends and family, each with a special message inside.

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.

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

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

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

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

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!