By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

Use marbles and paint to explore the wild world of shapes and color...and build writing strength, too.

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!

In this creative arts and crafts activity, children will design and create their very own alphabet tree!

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

Introduce your preschooler to patterns in this arts and craft activity that uses household materials to create and paint scratch prints.

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

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

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

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

Hereâs a surefire way to get your kids practicing their ABCs. Create an edible alphabet out of marshmallows and toothpicks.

Encourage your preschooler's creativity with this exciting art project! Every "scratch art" drawing is unique and colorful!

Decorate eggs for Easter without the mess by making an Easter egg collage instead in this preschool arts and crafts activity.

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

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

Draw letter people with your child to help her take a closer look at the letters, and see the differences between them.

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

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

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

Kids love to hear about themselves. And reading about themselves is even better! This personal yearbook will let them record all their important facts.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

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

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Let your child play with scissors! Put them to work, creating a book that will keep them busy, and help them practice their letters, too.

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.

This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your child busy, while helping them recognize letters in a creative way.

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.

This season, your child will make his very own candy cane decoration. He can make a bunch and put them all around your home!

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.