Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

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

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

Here are some kindergarten readiness activities that you can do with reused plastic bottle caps.

This activity turns kids into word detectives - scouring their way through documents in search of their prey.

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

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.

Your little one can welcome the reindeer with an adorable reindeer portrait all while learning the difference between small, medium and large.

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

Teaching kids that stories have an order is important, despite how fun it is to listen to the tale of the tomato that put on his pajamas and went for a swim.

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

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

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

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

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.

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

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

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

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

Help your kindergartener practice letter strokes while experimenting with the painting style of the great artist Mondrian.

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

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.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

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!

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!

If your kid likes to color, you probably know all too well that crayons go quickly. Put those crayon stubs to use by creating colorful ironed wax paper art!

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.