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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.

Using homemade felt alphabet letters and 26 colorful pictures, your preschooler will have a great time as they practice recognizing letters and their sounds.

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.

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

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

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

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!

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

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!

This season, your child will make his very own candy cane decoration. He can make a bunch and put them all around your home!

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

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

Decorate eggs for Easter without the mess by making an Easter egg collage instead in this preschool arts and crafts activity.

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

Introduce your child to the symbols of fall with this easy-to-make matching game that will hone observational skills and increase your kid's attention span.

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.

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

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

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

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

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

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Encourage your preschooler's creativity with this exciting art project! Every "scratch art" drawing is unique and colorful!