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Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.

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

This sunshiny art project is perfect for a rainy day and it helps preschoolers with fine motor skills.

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

Help your child develop her letter recognition skills throughout the week leading up to Valentineâs Day with this simple activity.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

How do you spell fun and learning? B-I-N-G-O! Children learn through play. And letter or number bingo is a great place to start.

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

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!

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

This cookie dough handles like molding clay, but also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills.

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

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

If your kid likes to color, you probably know all too well that crayons go quickly. Put those crayon stubs to use by creating colorful ironed wax paper art!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

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.

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.