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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

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

Draw letter people with your child to help her take a closer look at the letters, and see the differences between them.

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

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!

This fun and educational Halloween craft is a fantastic way to celebrate the holiday while building your child's letter and phonics skills.

Your preschooler will engage their senses by making a scented pumpkin to decorate your house.

Help your preschooler celebrate his big day by crafting a special, sparkly diploma frame to celebrate his achievement!

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

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

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!

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

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!

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!

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

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.

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

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

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.

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.

Help your preschooler craft her very own announcement to celebrate the special transition to "big kids" school!

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.