Create clear sound shakers so your preschooler can observe and compare the different sounds that objects make!

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

This simple movement activity helps improve listening skills, as your child will be required to discriminate between sound and silence.

Tin can phones offer something modern versions don't—a fun project to make with a friend, and a dramatic illustration of vibration and sound waves.

Healthy eating may sound dull to kids, but it doesn't have to be boring. Add a little pizzazz to snack time by holding a snack hunt!

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.

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.

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.

In this activity, your child fills jars with water to learn about acoustics, and practices mixing colors to form a rainbow of colors and sounds.

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

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

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

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!

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

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

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.

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

There's no need to hunt down a cactus for this rainstick craft. In fact, you can recycle items you probably already have on hand.

This fun and educational Halloween craft is a fantastic way to celebrate the holiday while building your child's letter and phonics skills.

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

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

This activity is a fun way to fill up your child's tummy and spend time together creating edible lessons in the kitchen.

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

This activity uses the signs and words kids see around them every day, to create a book they can read on their own.

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

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

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

This Valentine's Day, learn a little more about the organ that keeps everything in your body going--the heart!

Create your own set of alphabet blocks: you can make just a few or all 26.

Get active at home by pretending to be different animals! Use this fun and engaging activity to move your body, get silly, and practice gross motor skills.