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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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