Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

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.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

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

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

Let your child play with scissors! Put them to work, creating a book that will keep them busy, and help them practice their letters, too.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

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.

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

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

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.

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

Combine a recycling craft with ABC practice with this homemade foam craft idea.

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

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your child busy, while helping them recognize letters in a creative way.

In this creative arts and crafts activity, children will design and create their very own alphabet tree!

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

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.

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

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

Make your own personalized set of letter flash cards to get him thinking about the alphabet while boosting his fine motor skills in the process.

Teaching kids that stories have an order is important, despite how fun it is to listen to the tale of the tomato that put on his pajamas and went for a swim.

While kids learn when they can see or hear, they learn better when they can touch, too! Get your preschooler's fingers walking the alphabet today!

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!

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

If your kid likes to color, you probably know all too well that crayons go quickly. Put those crayon stubs to use by creating colorful ironed wax paper art!

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Here's a fun activity that will help your child learn to cut on a line, practice fine motor control, and create a beautiful garland, too.