Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

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!

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

Help your preschooler celebrate his big day by crafting a special, sparkly diploma frame to celebrate his achievement!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Help your kid make beautiful coin rubbings to decorate a fun treasure box.

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.

This cookie dough handles like molding clay, but also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills.

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

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

Draw letter people with your child to help her take a closer look at the letters, and see the differences between them.

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 silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

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.

Lacing is a great way to practice hand-eye coordination, which helps with writing. Turn it into a fun preschool art project, by stringing up some ABCs!

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

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.

Introduce your preschooler to patterns in this arts and craft activity that uses household materials to create and paint scratch prints.

This scavenger hunt game is simple, but it's fun, and it will arm your children with the directional vocabulary they should master in time for kindergarten.

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

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.

Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.