Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

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

Help your preschooler celebrate his big day by crafting a special, sparkly diploma frame to celebrate his achievement!

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

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.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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

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

Making personalized postcards out of meaningful photographs is a fun, rainy day project.

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

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

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!