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

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.

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

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

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

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

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

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!

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

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

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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.

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

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

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

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

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!

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!