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

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

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

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

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

Boost your child's early literacy skills and create alphabet tiles she can play and practice with - great reinforcement for ABC's, phonics and writing!

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.

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

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

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

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

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

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

This fun and educational Halloween craft is a fantastic way to celebrate the holiday while building your child's letter and phonics skills.

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.

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!

How do you spell fun and learning? B-I-N-G-O! Children learn through play. And letter or number bingo is a great place to start.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

This activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

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

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

This sunshiny art project is perfect for a rainy day and it helps preschoolers with fine motor skills.

Make a fuzzy bear with your kindergartener to build up early reading skills and introduce her to phonics.

Play the fridge magnet name game with your preschooler to help prepare her for kindergarten reading and writing.

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

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

Hereâs a surefire way to get your kids practicing their ABCs. Create an edible alphabet out of marshmallows and toothpicks.