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.

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

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

Here's a sweet gift you and your child can make together, sure to please the most finicky valentine.

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

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

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

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

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!

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.

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

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

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

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

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

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

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

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

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

This fun and educational Halloween craft is a fantastic way to celebrate the holiday while building your child's letter and phonics skills.

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

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

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.

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

How do you spell fun and learning? B-I-N-G-O! Children learn through play. And letter or number bingo is a great place to start.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.