Play with Words: A Pretend Bakery Game
If your child loves to play pretend, and needs practice with letters, get cooking with this activity! Not only is it playful fun, but it builds key reading skills.
Content Clues: Writing with Pictures
Want to spark some creativity? Not only is this bookmaking activity quick and fun, but it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's pictures provide context clues.
Toss and Blend: A Carnival Game
This game may not win your child a giant stuffed giraffe, but it will help boost his reading and spelling skills. Bring out the paper cups and let's build some words!
Branch Out: Create an Alphabet Tree
Help your child to begin a life long love of the printed word by connecting simple letter recognition exercises with alphabet trees!
Make an ABC Nature Book
Want to get your kids out of the house? Hunt for natural objects outside for each letter of the alphabet and compile them into a special alphabet nature book.
Make an Alphabet Memory Game
Learning the alphabet and letter sounds is extra fun if you play a game that you and your child made together! This game is very inexpensive to make and allows your child to practice using scissors and glue.
Play an ABC Memory Game
Combining fun with a little alphabet practice, this variation on the classic game Memory is an entertaining way to get kids learning their uppercase and lowercase ABCs.
Rock the Alphabet
Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection. Handwriting, letter recognition, phonics--this activity has it all!
Craft Unique Fridge Magnets
If you're looking for a way to display your child's artwork on the fridge, look no further! This activity recycles old magnets from insurance companies and turns them into pieces of flair for your fridge. Get creative as you make one-of-a-kind magnets for your one-of-a-kind kid!
Make Giant Dice!
Here's a way to put numbers and letters - key kindergarten math and reading skills - together while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play.
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