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.

Here is a guide to making a felt busy book that's perfect for focusing on specific learning areas with your child.

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.

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

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!

This activity uses the signs and words kids see around them every day, to create a book they can read on their own.

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.

In this activity, your child will learn to name the numbers from 1 through 5 and she'll practice her grouping skills.

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.

This outdoor game will help your child practice observational skills and visual identification while working in some exercise, too!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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

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.

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

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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

Explore the color orange with your preschooler by creating an edible picture using orange foods.

Play with shapes, like triangles and circles, to help your child review the different kinds and create a new picture!

Create clear sound shakers so your preschooler can observe and compare the different sounds that objects make!

As your child plays photographer, snapping pictures around the yard, he'll also be practicing recognizing letter sounds, which will help him learn to read.

This quick and simple preschool mirror activity will introduce your child to the science of reflection and light with a flashlight experiment and picture game.

A fun activity for a hot day, this will give young kids a chance to experiment with beginning science and math â and splash around in the process!

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

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.

In this activity, students will draw a picture of the things they like to listen to at home using their superpower sense of mindful listening.

Instead of painting a picture of a whale, let your preschooler make their own whale toy using a paper bag and some recycled art supplies.

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!

In this activity, your child fills jars with water to learn about acoustics, and practices mixing colors to form a rainbow of colors and sounds.