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

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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!

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.