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 is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

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

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.

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.

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!

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

This activity turns kids into word detectives - scouring their way through documents in search of their prey.

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

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

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

Decorate eggs for Easter without the mess by making an Easter egg collage instead in this preschool arts and crafts activity.

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

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

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

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

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!

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:

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

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

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.

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.

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.

This scavenger hunt game is simple, but it's fun, and it will arm your children with the directional vocabulary they should master in time for kindergarten.

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

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

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

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.