Help your child develop her letter recognition skills throughout the week leading up to Valentineâs Day with this simple activity.

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.

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

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.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

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

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

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!

Create a glamorous yet easy-to-store puppet stage for your preschooler or pre-kindergartener!

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!

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

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!

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

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

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

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

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

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

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

Help your preschooler celebrate his big day by crafting a special, sparkly diploma frame to celebrate his achievement!

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.

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

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.