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.

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

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

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.

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:

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!

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.

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!

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

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.

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

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.

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