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

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

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

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:

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

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!

Rewriting this classic Christmas carol will spark your child's creativity while strengthening his familiarity with grammar and style elements.

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

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

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.

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

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

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

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.

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, 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.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

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