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

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

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.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

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

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

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.

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

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

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!

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

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

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

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

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

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!

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.

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

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.