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.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Learning to identify and categorize different geometric shapes is a big goal for early learners. And your neighborhood is the perfect place to start!

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

This unexpected art project is sure to result in a Picasso-esque jumble of imagination that will teach your kid about shapes, colors, and abstract form!

This fun art activity will get your child's creative juices flowing and will teach her about shapes, pattern and texture along the way.

Use Henri Matisse as inspiration for your preschooler or kindergartener to create a unique and funky paper shapes collage in this arts and crafts activity.

In this science fair project, young children observe, record, and create collections of shapes in their world and increase their powers of observation.

Teach your kids about entropy with this fun, easy exercise, and teach your money to dance while you're at it!

Turn sweet treats into miniature masterpieces with this candy melting activity!

This arts and crafts activity will help your kindergartener with shape and color recognition.

Make a family tree with your child to teach him about his personal history. Make a family tree with this tutorial, and teach your kid about his family history.

This fun craft will teach your child a little bit about the human skeletal system and can be adapted to teach the biology of many different living animals.

Teach your young academic about counting and clocks with a tasty treat!

Teach your child about jesters as she makes her very own jester hat.

Teach your kid a lesson about recycling by helping him create a letter holder out of an old cardboard box.

Teach your child how to make a Georgia O'Keefe flower collage using pasta and paint for a fun art activity.

Teach your child about the importance and peacefulness of Ramadan as she gets creative drawing domes, minarets and prayer halls.

Celebrate the 100th day of school by creating a geometric, math-inspired mural in the style of Henri Matisse in this creative kindergarten grade art activity.

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

Teach your child the value of hard work with this adorable hen craft, based on the hardworking heroine from the classic folktale "The Little Red Hen."

Teach your child how to feed himself in the morning with this simple and delicious breakfast burrito recipe.

Teach your little one to appreciate all the best things in life with a keepsake Thanksgiving plate.

Teach an important and often comical historical lesson with a prediction game that teaches youngsters about the fallibility of word-of-mouth talk.

Teach your child the colors of the rainbow while creating an impressive treat that will brighten up the whole kitchen.

Enjoy making these no bake cookies with the kids and teach them important lessons in early math skills.