Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Play the fridge magnet name game with your preschooler to help prepare her for kindergarten reading and writing.

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

This activity spotlights everyone's favorite reindeer, Rudolph, and preserves your child's handprints in his "antlers".

Use simple items like clothespins and yarn to craft these adorable little dolls. They're fun to make and even more fun to play with!

Serve up this pretend play activity to your preschooler to give her counting skills a healthy boost.

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

In this activity, your kid will cut rectangles, circles and triangles to create a portrait of the jolliest man of them all: Santa Claus!

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

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!

Create cake pops in shaped like eyeballs in this extra sweet, gross-out Halloween baking activity!

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.

During this chilly winter season, try this fun indoor craft with your preschooler to help him explore art concepts like shape, form and texture.

Your preschooler will strengthen his fine motor skills by cutting, painting, and drawing as he creates a crafty caterpillar out of an egg carton.

Let your child celebrate the season with this recycled craft that turns paper tubes into sweet reindeer ready to be filled with holiday goodies.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

Your child can count down the days until Christmas while giving Santa's beard a trim. This adorable project bolsters counting and number recognition skills.

These little monsters made from balloons and flour are silly and fun and best of all, easy for preschoolers to make.

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.

Give your kid the opportunity to experiment with color combinations, and how the tape is applied as they make special cards for friends and family.

Teach your preschooler some physics that she can relate to with this fun and simple activity!

Help your preschooler grasp the concept of ordering and sequence while teaching him valuable vocabulary with simple activities around the house.

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.

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

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.

Show your child how to spell their name in a whole new way with this sculptural 3-D art project.

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

Baking these fun cookies will introduce your child to the concept of cross-sections.

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

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