By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

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

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

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

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

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

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

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.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

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.

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

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.

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

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!

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

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

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

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

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

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

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

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