Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

Use this fun spin-off of Bingo to help your child practice number recognition and listening skills!

Strengthen your child's number recognition skills with this fun game using an old, empty egg carton!

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.

In this arts and crafts activity, boost your kindergartener's letter recognition and reading skills by helping her create a paper word quilt.

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

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.

Help your child master shape recognition by creating some funky topiary trees.

This arts and crafts activity will help your kindergartener with shape and color recognition.

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

This simple bookmaking activity will introduce and reinforce alphabet and number recognition skills that have been taught at home or learned in preschool.

Help your kindergartener practice his shape recognition and develop his fine motor skills by making a scarecrow at home.

Here's a math game for your preschooler or kindergartener that'll make number recognition as easy as a pizza pie!

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

This turkey hand activity will help your child practice patterns and number recognition, key concepts that she'll encounter throughout your child's academic career.

This St. Patrick's-themed color game reinforces your kindergartener's recognition of green objects, and also gives her reading and listening skills a work out.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

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!

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!

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

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

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.

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

This homemade alphabet game will keep your kindergartener on his toes and help him practice letter, numbers, and taking turns. The whole family can participate!

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

Picking words out can be tricky. In this early reading activity, your child will place letter markers on a grid to make words appear out of the jumble.

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.

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