Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

Invite your kindergartener or first grader to make giant, soft building blocks. He'll have a blast constructing, throwing, stacking, and even falling on them!

In this design challenge, your child will use building bricks to create a funny face. The activity instructions include question prompts thta can help guide your child through the creative process, and promote their problem-solving skills.

Improve your kindergartener's vocabulary with this fun, quick, and simple improvisation activity! He'll love acting while practicing directionality words.

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

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

Help your kindergartener make and play a "Hop On Pop"-inspired card game--a fun way to learn word families!

In this arts and crafts activity, boost your kindergartener's letter recognition and reading skills by helping her create a paper word quilt.

Picking words out can be tricky. In this early reading activity, your child will place letter markers on a grid to make words appear out of the jumble.

Celebrate President's Day with your kindergartener by building a delicious presidential snack: a banana log cabin!

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

This imaginative shape activity will introduce your kindergartener to the world of shape and color while building basic math skills.

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

Use fun and fuzzy pipe cleaners to help your child learn how to form important letters that make up the words that are the building blocks of phonics.

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!

This versatile clay-like material hardens if left out and can be used for building sand castles, forts, and even school projects.

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

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

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.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

While building his own croquet set, your kindergartener will use both his math an fine motor skills and as he plays he'll improve his hand-eye coordination.

This fall-themed missing letter activity is a great way to help your child learn the alphabet, build their vocabulary and bolster letter recognition skills.

This simple game isn't just a diversion, it teaches your child to identify the incorrect word within a familiar verse.

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

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

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

Let your preschooler play with her food by making snack logs out of celery, peanut butter and corn flakes.

These bean bag games are a fun and inexpensive way to keep your child learning! Work on social skills, coordination, math, or even spelling!

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.