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:

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

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

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

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.

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.

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

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

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

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

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

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

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

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

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.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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!