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

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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

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 write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

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

Try this patterned story activity with your kindergartener to help her build up her reading and writing skills using some of her favorite books from preschool.

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

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

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

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

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.