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

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

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

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.

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

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

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.

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

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

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

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

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

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

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

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 delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

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.

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!

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.

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

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

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

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

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

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

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

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

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

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