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

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

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

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

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.

You kid can count from one to ten, no problem. They can even do it backward. Work on their addition and subtraction skills with this fun fruit picking activity.

This activity turns kids into word detectives - scouring their way through documents in search of their prey.

In this design challenge, your child will use building bricks to create a funny face. The activity instructions include question prompts thta can help guide your child through the creative process, and promote their problem-solving skills.

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

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

Here's Twist 'N Turn: let your preschooler or pre-kindergartener be outside and active while learning about shapes, colors, directions, and word recognition.

With this "tightrope" game, your child will practice balancing skills and gain experience with the directions forward, backward, and sideways.

This activity uses the signs and words kids see around them every day, to create a book they can read on their own.

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.

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

While you are waiting for the real stuff, this activity lets your child play in pretend "snow" while practicing reading skills and learning about magnets.

Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.

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 guessing game is a hoot. And it helps teach kids to categorize a set of objects-- a key skill for preschool.

Forget expensive store bought cards, this handmade card truly delivers--and it helps your preschooler with letter recognition.

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:

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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

In this activity, your child will be given images that portray different perspectives or emotions. Your child will practice empathy by coloring and drawing what each person may have been thinking or feeling.

This simple activity is not only fun, it's also a useful way to organize children's closets — and offer kids some autonomy to boot.

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

Here's a preschool arts and crafts project that makes personalizing your child's room affordable, easy and fun.

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

This gluten free recipe for coconut rice is a tasty way to help any picky eater expand her culinary horizons. She'll get great measuring practice along the way!