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Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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

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.

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

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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!

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!

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

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

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

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

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

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

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:

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

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