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

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

Here are some kindergarten readiness activities that you can do with reused plastic bottle caps.

Improve your preschooler's knowledge of the alphabet by playing games with your own homemade wooden letters!

Design a set of uppercase and lowercase alphabet cards, then use them to play memory and phonics games!

Use two toilet paper rolls to make a pair of homemade binoculars and let the games begin. Here's how:

These bean bag games are a fun and inexpensive way to keep your child learning! Work on social skills, coordination, math, or even spelling!

Here are some ideas for marshmallow math games you can play with your child to help teach him important concepts like estimation, area, and measurement.

Does your child love Roly, the orange cat from our Brainzy games? Create the perfect dress-up costume and bring your child’s dreams to life!

A fun activity for a hot day, this will give young kids a chance to experiment with beginning science and math â and splash around in the process!

Summer is a good time to teach children about other kinds of community helpers, such as lifeguards, forest rangers, and librarians. This activity is a fun way to get them introduced!

This variation on the classic group game "Mother, May I?" can be played with one or more child and involves continual participation.

The next time your kids are pent up inside because of bad weather, try hosting a Balloon Olympics!

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers: try finger painting with corn syrup and food coloring to make bright, colorful works of art.

Does your child love toy cars? Here’s a terrific way for them to play with their toy cars and practice number recognition skills at the same time.

Delight your child by helping them to construct a boat that can hold two seaworthy toy figures in this engaging project made from upcycled water bottles.

In this variation on musical chairs, no one gets kicked "out" of the game -- instead, they get to tell other kids what to do!

This do-it-anywhere guessing game helps reinforce number concepts. And it's a blast to play.

Play Number Dash with your preschooler and help them learn to identify numbers, write numbers and learn about organized play.

This unique twist on bingo is a great outside game that gives kids spelling and color practice, and it's lots of fun, too!

Kids get in lots of letter learning as they play this fun twist on regular tag, which engages their minds as well as their bodies.

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

A plastic tray is the perfect tool to teach your little one how to count. Try out this activity, and your child will have her numbers down in no time.

In this activity, you'll find out an easy way to make your own pretend potato -- out of an old pair of stockings!

Here's a fun activity to get your kindergarten child to listen to beginning alphabet sounds and match them with their letter symbols.

Your child will have a blast developing their fine motor skills and working on shape recognition with this bright and cheery crab decoration.

In this activity, your child will learn and practice mindfulness by using their senses to focus on one thing at a time.

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.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

Use sticks and stones to create create an outdoor version of tic-tac-toe!