Here are some kindergarten readiness activities that you can do with reused plastic bottle caps.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Help your kindergartener practice letter strokes while experimenting with the painting style of the great artist Mondrian.

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

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.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child learn to cut on a line, practice fine motor control, and create a beautiful garland, too.

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

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

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

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

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!

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.

Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!

Let your imagination take flight as you explore the beautiful continent of Africa! Do this fun writing activity with your child to honor Black History Month.

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

Your child can count down the days until Christmas while giving Santa's beard a trim. This adorable project bolsters counting and number recognition skills.

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

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

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

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 household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.

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

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

Lacing is a great way to practice hand-eye coordination, which helps with writing. Turn it into a fun preschool art project, by stringing up some ABCs!

Help your preschooler celebrate his big day by crafting a special, sparkly diploma frame to celebrate his achievement!

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

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

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.