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.

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

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

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:

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.