Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

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

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.

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

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

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!

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!

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

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

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

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.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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

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

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.

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

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

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

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.

Here's a sweet gift you and your child can make together, sure to please the most finicky valentine.

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

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

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

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.

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.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

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