Choose favorite rhyming songs or nursery rhymes then replace the rhyming words with seasonal themes.

Find three fun online games that are designed to help children learn to recognize letters and how they sound.

Help children use favorite photos to write a homemade memory book.

From dishes to doors, find shapes all around you while strengthening important reading and math skills.

While enjoying a book that features a journey, children write postcards from the perspective of the main character for each stop along the trip.

After reading If You Give a Moose a Muffin, have a "Muffin Party"! Children will write invitations, follow a recipe, and enjoy sharing their homemade muffins.

With a piece of paper and a pen, kids can learn anywhere! This activity gets kids writing, looking closely at letters, and learning some new words in any room of the house.

Want to visit a museum without leaving your computer? Virtually dig for famous historical artifacts from around the world found in the British Museum.

After reading about historical figures and other important people that have changed the world, children choose someone that they consider to be "amazing"—either someone they've heard about or someone they know—and create a book page that highlights this person.

Create a treasure hunt out of word-puzzle clues hidden around the home or yard.

Everyone loves getting a greeting card, especially if it's homemade. Make a funny or thoughtful greeting card or invitation with pictures and a poem, joke, or riddle.

Children incorporate materials from outdoors with paints or crayons to create pieces of art to display on their clotheslines, fences, or porches for a neighborhood art show.

Using published comics and cartoons as examples, children can create their own while playing with images and language.

Sort through your junk mail and talk about what you find for a fun literacy activity before recycling it!

Children can interview family members and make an illustrated timeline of the most important family events and memories.

Plan a visit to a library to discover more about this magical place.

Playing board games or card games can be a fun activity, so why not make your own?

Children will draw on their knowledge of story structure and fairy tales to write their own.

These activities will have children reading signs, logos, brand names, and other words all over their home and community.

Work together, create a bingo board that can be played while walking around town, going to the zoo or a museum, or traveling on a vacation.