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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.

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

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

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

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

Your preschooler will engage their senses by making a scented pumpkin to decorate your house.

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

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

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

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

If your kid likes to color, you probably know all too well that crayons go quickly. Put those crayon stubs to use by creating colorful ironed wax paper art!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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!

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.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child learn to cut on a line, practice fine motor control, and create a beautiful garland, too.

Your preschooler will have a great time painting on a foil background to create a stunning, shiny work of art!