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.

This outdoor game will help your child practice observational skills and visual identification while working in some exercise, too!

Explore the color orange with your preschooler by creating an edible picture using orange foods.

Play with shapes, like triangles and circles, to help your child review the different kinds and create a new picture!

Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

This quick and simple preschool mirror activity will introduce your child to the science of reflection and light with a flashlight experiment and picture game.

In this activity, students will draw a picture of the things they like to listen to at home using their superpower sense of mindful listening.

Instead of painting a picture of a whale, let your preschooler make their own whale toy using a paper bag and some recycled art supplies.

This slightly messy, but tons-of-fun tactile activity will cement the idea of the land and water as pictured on maps in your young learner's mind.

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

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

It's easy and fun to make puzzles, and your child can pick any design.

Forget markers or crayons. For a really unusual art project, close the art supply cabinet, and crack open the pantry! Use rice to make pictures.

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

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.

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

Make matzoh more fun! Help your preschooler or kindergartener design a matzoh puzzle from broken pieces of the flatbread.

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

This fun photography activity will build your child's vocabulary, their understanding of the world, and they'll make their own game of concentration!

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.

Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!

Kids get innovative as they mix their own colors then make a painting with the new shades of color they've created.

In this art project, budding entomologists will create a larger than life, moveable puppet version of a praying mantis.

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!

If using regular watercolors is getting a little dry, liven things up by using salt to create a beautiful painting with unique crystal texture!

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

Give your child a chance to experiment with how things grow. And throw in something extra to up the fun factor even more...her very own grass pet!