In this activity, you will create a magical box to help your child learn her letter sounds. Here's how to play the Abracadabra learning game!

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Help your kindergartener practice letter strokes while experimenting with the painting style of the great artist Mondrian.

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

Holiday thank you cards show friends and family that you appreciate them. Make a batch of holiday thank you cards with your child this winter.

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.