Preschool Reading & Writing Activities

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!

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

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.

Kids love to hear about themselves. And reading about themselves is even better! This personal yearbook will let them record all their important facts.

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

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

Encourage your preschooler's creativity with this exciting art project! Every "scratch art" drawing is unique and colorful!

Introduce your preschooler to patterns in this arts and craft activity that uses household materials to create and paint scratch prints.

Help your preschooler begin reading and writing the printed word by connecting simple letter recognition exercises with this easy art project: alphabet trees!

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

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

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!

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

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

Your preschooler will have a great time painting on a foil background to create a stunning, shiny work of art!

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!

No matter if it's election day, an important leader's birthday, or any U.S. holiday, this red, white, and blue craft is a great way to show your patriotism.

Winter is a great time to create a textured polar bear. Not only will your child gain practice identifying shapes, he'll also work out fine motor skills.

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

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

Your little one can welcome the reindeer with an adorable reindeer portrait all while learning the difference between small, medium and large.

Your child can count down the days until Christmas while giving Santa's beard a trim. This adorable project bolsters counting and number recognition skills.

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.