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.

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.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

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

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

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

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

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

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.

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

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.

Here's a sweet gift you and your child can make together, sure to please the most finicky valentine.

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

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.

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.

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete 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.

Looking for Father's Day inspiration? Make him a "card" he can wear...and build up your kindergartener's reading skills while you're at it.

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

Creating a book is one thing, but creating a codex is a whole different ball game.

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.

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

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!

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

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

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.

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.

Got a kid who's learning to read? Looking for a new board game to add to the bunch? With a little help from your child, you can make a game of your own!

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