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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

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.

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

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

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

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

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.

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

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

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

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

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