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Make use of your family's leftover Christmas cards and wrapping paper with a colorful letter craft activity!

Teach your kid a lesson about recycling by helping him create a letter holder out of an old cardboard box.

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.

Is your fifth grader trying overnight camp this summer? If so, prepare your child for writing a letter home with this activity!

Spark your child's interest in current events by encouraging them to write a letter to the U.S. president.

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Help your child reinforce the order of the alphabet with this hands-on activity using some everyday materials. It's a fun way to put a spin on a timeless skill.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Cut up some shapes and make this cute letter A alligator with your child, and they'll always remember the first letter of the alphabet!

This fall-themed missing letter activity is a great way to help your child learn the alphabet, build their vocabulary and bolster letter recognition skills.

Introduce your fifth grader to the irresistible fun of string art with this letter project!

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

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

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

Here's an adorable kindergarten refrigerator magnet that celebrates the glories of the letter "B" and benefits your early reader.

Help your child make his very own stationery, then take the opportunity to teach him how to write a letter!

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

Build up those kindergarten letter-sound reading skills...and create a whimsical, practical craft at the same time.

Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.

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.

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

Stamp out the sameness of learning the ABC's for your kindergartener. Make 26 letter sponge stamps and create projects with him to practice.

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