Early Childhood Handwriting Activities

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

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

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!

Reuse the tops of tissue boxes as photo frames for treasured family photos in this fun craft activity.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your child busy, while helping them recognize letters in a creative way.

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!

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

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

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.

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.

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

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