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Using homemade felt alphabet letters and 26 colorful pictures, your preschooler will have a great time as they practice recognizing letters and their sounds.

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.

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

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

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

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.

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.

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

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.

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

This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your child busy, while helping them recognize letters in a creative way.

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.

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

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

Combine a recycling craft with ABC practice with this homemade foam craft idea.

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

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

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

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

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

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.

Play the fridge magnet name game with your preschooler to help prepare her for kindergarten reading and writing.

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

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!

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.

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

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

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!

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.