Support your kids’ learning at home with educational workbooks that are fun to do! These top activity books for children are great solutions to keep kids practicing educational skills at home and provide an alternative to screen time. With game-like, colorful activities, these workbooks provide practice across the curriculum and will help your child build a strong foundation in math, reading, writing, science, social studies, STEM, critical thinking, and more!
Evan-Moor’s colorful workbooks support the most current standards to provide your child with practice of the must-know skills for each grade level. These activity books are ideal for keeping academic skills sharp during the school year, motivating reluctant readers, improving math skills, and enhancing summer learning!
Discover the best workbook for your child with these favorite activity books for kids!
Early Learning for PreK–1
The Smart Start workbooks for grades PreK–1 support your little learner with beginning reading, math, STEM, and coding activities. The fun practice opportunities help your child learn to read and build confidence in number fluency.
Smart Start: Read and Write
activity books support your child as they learn to read. The activities review important alphabet letters and sounds and provide important practice of beginning-reading skills. The audio read-aloud stories and activities introduce short sentences and provide fun practice activities to help early learners practice their letters and fine-motor skills. As children move from PreK to first grade in these books, the reading activities become more advanced.
Smart Start: Phonics and Spelling give early learners a reading boost with colorful activities, audio stories, and stickers. Recipient of a 2023 National Parenting Product Award, these engaging activity books help children build positive early learning experiences with beginning reading. Children will practice beginning letter sounds, learn important spelling patterns, and read short stories with beginning word families.
Smart Start: Math Stories and Activities
workbooks provide beginning math practice. The activities will help your child learn and practice counting and writing numbers, and learn patterns, measurement, shapes, addition and subtraction, and more. The audio read-aloud stories included in every unit help kids recognize math in the world around them with real-life examples. As children move from PreK to first grade in these books, the math activities become more advanced.
Smart Start: Beginning Coding Stories and Activities 
provide a screen-free option for early learners to practice beginning coding skills. Based on the K–12 Computer Science Framework, this dynamic early learning series helps children understand coding concepts to develop a strong foundation in computer science, including computational thinking, problem solving, and critical thinking. Recipient of Creative Child Magazine’s 2022 Book of the Year Award, Smart Start: Beginning Coding provides engaging, screen-free coding activities that build foundational skills.
The Smart Start series also includes:
Smart Start: STEM
Skill-Specific Practice for Grades PreK–6
Whether you’re looking to support your child in a specific skill area or to accelerate learning, the Skill Sharpeners workbook series for grades PreK–6 provides the perfect combination of skill practice and fun to spark kids’ interest! Select a topic in your children’s favorite subject area or an area they could use some extra practice, and watch their skills grow. Each Skill Sharpeners workbook includes a free downloadable teaching guide with additional lessons and teaching tips to enrich your child’s learning home.
Skill Sharpeners: Math workbooks encourage children to practice and review math concepts they have already learned. The creative activities practice important grade-level math concepts and improve children’s math fluency, number sense, and reasoning skills. Each workbook includes a free downloadable teaching guide with additional hands-on activities and teaching tips for learning at home.
Skill Sharpeners: Spell and Write
workbooks help children build confidence in writing. The colorful activities support written language skills. Activities include practice of grammar and punctuation, vocabulary, creative writing, and spelling. Each workbook includes a free downloadable teaching guide with additional activities and tips.
Skill Sharpeners: STEAM
activity books integrate science, technology, engineering, art, and math to create meaningful learning opportunities for kids! The real-world topics in these STEAM workbooks connect learning to the environment, earth, people, and cultures, and inspire children to solve real problems related to sun safety, water conservation, wildlife, and more! If your child prefers hands-on learning, these books are a great fit. The open-ended questions and problem solving capture children’s interest and keep them thinking and learning long after the activities are over. Each workbook includes a free downloadable teaching guide with additional activities and tips.
Download free sample units for Skill Sharpeners: STEAM here.
The Skill Sharpeners series also includes:
Skill Sharpeners: Reading
Skill Sharpeners: Science
Smart: Start Sight Words and High Frequency Words
Skill Sharpeners: Geography
Skill Sharpeners: Grammar and Punctuation
Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking
Best-Value Jumbo Workbook, Grades PreK–6
Top Student
jumbo workbooks provide more than 350 activities to keep kids challenged and excited as they strengthen their skills in every subject area. Topics include math, science, reading, spelling, grammar, vocabulary, writing, social studies, computer science, SEL, STEM, and mindfulness. Give your child in-depth review and practice in every subject area with these packed workbooks! Each book includes a full-size informational poster and stickers (for grades PreK–5.)
Top Student activity books won the 2020 Parents’ Picks Award for Best Educational Products for Preschool and Elementary Kids.
Summer Learning Essentials Grades PreK–8
Daily Summer Activities
workbooks provide a simple summer learning solution to help your child transition to the next grade level. The short, daily activities can be completed in just 15 minutes a day and make it easy for children to review important math, reading, spelling, critical thinking, and geography skills. The weekly reading logs create enjoyable summer-learning opportunities that help prepare children for the next grade level.
Fun stickers help grades PreK–5 children track their reading progress.
Daily Summer Activities activity books won the 2020 Parents’ Picks Award for Best Educational Products for Preschool and Elementary Kids.
Download a free sample unit for Daily Summer Activities here.
Real-World Writing Activities Grades 1–6
Real-World Writing for Today’s Kids
workbooks demonstrate how diverse and innovative writing in today’s world can be. The colorful and hands-on creative activities include infographics, blogs, restaurant reviews, and more! Real-life writing activities will give your child practical writing experience and inspire even reluctant writers to put pen to paper.
Life Skills
Heart and Mind Activities for Today’s Kids
includes 100 fun activities that support your child’s well-being. The activities create positive learning experiences for children and help them learn to manage emotions, reduce anxiety, and navigate social situations. Activities include art, puzzles, games, coloring, and more!
Social Skills Activities for Today’s Kids
helps children have positive interactions and gain confidence. These colorful workbooks that provide practice and preparation for making friends, being at school, and going places. The meaningful, fun activities give children a safe space to think about how to handle social situations and provide guidance and suggestions for them to consider. Fun activities and hands-on projects that practice basic skills, such as tracing, writing, coloring, drawing, cutting and gluing, sequencing, reading, and more, are all part of the worksheets and art projects in this book.
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Heather Foudy is a certified elementary teacher with over 7 years’ experience as an educator and volunteer in the classroom. She enjoys creating lessons that are meaningful and creative for students. She is currently working for Evan-Moor’s marketing and communications team and enjoys building learning opportunities that are both meaningful and creative for students and teachers alike.