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

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

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

Your little one can welcome the reindeer with an adorable reindeer portrait all while learning the difference between small, medium and large.

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

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

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

This season, your child will make his very own candy cane decoration. He can make a bunch and put them all around your home!

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!

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

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!

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

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.

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

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.

Help your kid make beautiful coin rubbings to decorate a fun treasure box.

Encourage your preschooler's creativity with this exciting art project! Every "scratch art" drawing is unique and colorful!

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

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

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

Introduce your child to the symbols of fall with this easy-to-make matching game that will hone observational skills and increase your kid's attention span.