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

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

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.

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

Let your child play with scissors! Put them to work, creating a book that will keep them busy, and help them practice their letters, too.

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!

Here's a fun activity that will help your child learn to cut on a line, practice fine motor control, and create a beautiful garland, too.

Reuse the tops of tissue boxes as photo frames for treasured family photos in this fun craft activity.

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

In these three games, children work on letter recognition skills with the help of some tape, music, and a few stuffed animal friends.

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

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 you are waiting for the real stuff, this activity lets your child play in pretend "snow" while practicing reading skills and learning about magnets.

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

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

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

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.