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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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