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

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

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

Make a textured name plate to hang on your preschooler's door!

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

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

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

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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

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.

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

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

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!

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Create your own set of alphabet blocks: you can make just a few or all 26.

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.

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

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

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

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

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.

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.