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

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

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 a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Create your own set of alphabet blocks: you can make just a few or all 26.

In this activity, you will create a magical box to help your child learn her letter sounds. Here's how to play the Abracadabra learning game!

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.

Using homemade felt alphabet letters and 26 colorful pictures, your preschooler will have a great time as they practice recognizing letters and their sounds.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

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

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

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.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

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.

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

Improve your preschooler's knowledge of the alphabet by playing games with your own homemade wooden letters!

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

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

Here's a rainy day phonics craft project for you and your first grader. Reel in those double "ee" words on this do-it-yourself eel!

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

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

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.