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

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

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

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

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.

Make your own personalized set of letter flash cards to get him thinking about the alphabet while boosting his fine motor skills in the process.

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!

Introduce your child to the symbols of fall with this easy-to-make matching game that will hone observational skills and increase your kid's attention span.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

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

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

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

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

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

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

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.

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

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

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

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

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