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.

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

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

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.

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.

While kids learn when they can see or hear, they learn better when they can touch, too! Get your preschooler's fingers walking the alphabet today!

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

As your child plays photographer, snapping pictures around the yard, he'll also be practicing recognizing letter sounds, which will help him learn to read.

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.

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

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

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!

Improve your preschooler's knowledge of the alphabet by playing games with your own homemade wooden letters!

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!

Create a glamorous yet easy-to-store puppet stage for your preschooler or pre-kindergartener!

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

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

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

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!

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

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

Want to make number skills second nature to your preschooler? Try these cheerful, "sunny" number flash cards!

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