Is your child learning to write the alphabet correctly? In this "kinesthetic" activity, use movement and art to help your child with letter-writing.

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

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

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

Reuse the tops of tissue boxes as photo frames for treasured family photos in this fun craft activity.

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.

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!

Introduce your preschooler to patterns in this arts and craft activity that uses household materials to create and paint scratch prints.

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:

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

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

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

This activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

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.

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

This sunshiny art project is perfect for a rainy day and it helps preschoolers with fine motor skills.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

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.

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

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.

Help your kindergartener practice letter strokes while experimenting with the painting style of the great artist Mondrian.

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

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