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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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:

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

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

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

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

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

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

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

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

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.

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.

Make a tooth care poster with your kindergartener to help her understand how important it is to take care of those growing pearly whites!

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