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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.

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

Painting cookies is a fun way for your child to exercise his fine motor skills and be creative at the same time.

Teach your child how to create lots and lots of line designs by wrapping string around wooden blocks, and using them to create line-filled prints.

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

Kids love to hear about themselves. And reading about themselves is even better! This personal yearbook will let them record all their important facts.

The 100th day of school is an important benchmark for kids in the lower elementary grades. Help your kid create a 100 days of school shirt to celebrate!

Play with, explore, and describe everyday objects with your preschooler to get her ready to learn basic math skills and concepts.

Help your child learn about the science of color mixing and primary and secondary colors with this experimental art activity.

Dream big by making some washi tape wall art, an easy (and totally temporary) way to experiment with murals.

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

It can feel good to hit something when you're mad. The more your child pounds, squeezes, and mashes this dough, the better these play dough cookies will taste!

Lacing is a great way to practice hand-eye coordination, which helps with writing. Turn it into a fun preschool art project, by stringing up some ABCs!

Using homemade felt alphabet letters and 26 colorful pictures, your preschooler will have a great time as they practice recognizing letters and their sounds.

Boost your preschooler's math and verbal skills by having her participate in simple, fun activities that teach her how to sort, count, and categorize objects.

Make a fuzzy bear with your kindergartener to build up early reading skills and introduce her to phonics.

Make a hand-decorated pillowcase to help ease the bedtime battle so that everyone can get a night of sweet dreams.

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!

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

Help your preschooler craft her very own announcement to celebrate the special transition to "big kids" school!

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

Help your child learn the language of mathematics through cupcakes with this fun counting activity.

Use marbles and paint to explore the wild world of shapes and color...and build writing strength, too.

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.

Challenge your preschooler to a game of shape match-up--an entertaining way to boost her observational ability.

This very physical game gets math off the page and into the real world-- and it works on number sense and estimation, key skills for kindergarten readiness.

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

This Easter, try putting on a guided family scavenger hunt to help your kindergartener track down the Easter eggs.

Treasure hunts are tons of fun and they're a great way to introduce maps. Set the stage, and your kid's imagination will do the rest.

Help your child develop his counting and language skills with this fun activity. He'll be a number hero for a day and learn about safety while he's at it.