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

The 100th day of school is an important benchmark for kids in the lower elementary grades. Help your kid create a 100 days of school shirt to celebrate!

This school bus is easy to make, and all you need are some common household items.

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."

Try a 100th Day of School Scavenger Hunt with your preschooler, and send her on the search for objects of different colors!

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.

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!

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.

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 preschooler to create this artful reminder of home for the first days of school. Using family photos your child can collage a memento of home.

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

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

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

Help your preschooler craft her very own announcement to celebrate the special transition to "big kids" school!

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

Share some old school fun with your preschooler with stilts you can make from items found in your recycling!

Celebrate your little one's move to big kid school by throwing a very special graduation party complete with friends, crafts, and lots of energetic fun.

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

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.

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.

Summer is a great time to work on pre-kindergarten skills that will serve your child well in her first year at school, while having some fun in the sun!

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

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.

Shamrock Stamps are a great way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Simple and symmetrical, this symbol of Irish culture is the perfect shape for prints.

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

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

In this playful preschool arts and crafts activity, your child will create a cute and colorful caterpillar using pom-poms, googly eyes, and a clothespin.

Teach your preschooler some physics that she can relate to with this fun and simple activity!

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers: try finger painting with corn syrup and food coloring to make bright, colorful works of art.