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

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Make a fuzzy bear with your kindergartener to build up early reading skills and introduce her to phonics.

Your little one can welcome the reindeer with an adorable reindeer portrait all while learning the difference between small, medium and large.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

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

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Here are some kindergarten readiness activities that you can do with reused plastic bottle caps.

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

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

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

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

Make a textured name plate to hang on your preschooler's door!

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.

This fun game helps to strengthen your kindergartener's speaking skills, by teaching him to answer questions with complete sentences.

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

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

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

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

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

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

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

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

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.

Make grammar interesting for kinders, with this fun take on charades. They'll practice verbs and get in some giggles, too!

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.

Teaching kids that stories have an order is important, despite how fun it is to listen to the tale of the tomato that put on his pajamas and went for a swim.