Handwriting Activities : Page 2

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

Your little one can welcome the reindeer with an adorable reindeer portrait all while learning the difference between small, medium and large.

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

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.

In these three games, children work on letter recognition skills with the help of some tape, music, and a few stuffed animal friends.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

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.

Reuse the tops of tissue boxes as photo frames for treasured family photos in this fun craft activity.

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

This cookie dough handles like molding clay, but also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills.

Boost your child's early literacy skills and create alphabet tiles she can play and practice with - great reinforcement for ABC's, phonics and writing!

Want to make number skills second nature to your preschooler? Try these cheerful, "sunny" number flash cards!

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

Holiday thank you cards show friends and family that you appreciate them. Make a batch of holiday thank you cards with your child this winter.

Making personalized postcards out of meaningful photographs is a fun, rainy day project.

This sunshiny art project is perfect for a rainy day and it helps preschoolers with fine motor skills.

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

Help your preschooler craft her very own announcement to celebrate the special transition to "big kids" school!

Play the fridge magnet name game with your preschooler to help prepare her for kindergarten reading and writing.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

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

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.

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

Create a glamorous yet easy-to-store puppet stage for your preschooler or pre-kindergartener!

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

As your child plays photographer, snapping pictures around the yard, he'll also be practicing recognizing letter sounds, which will help him learn to read.

Help you child create an inspirational quote board out of foam that will motivate her to produce her best work and maintain a positive attitude.

In this activity, your kid will cut rectangles, circles and triangles to create a portrait of the jolliest man of them all: Santa Claus!

Build a peek-a-boo book and give your child a fun vocabulary and reading boost, on the fly!