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

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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

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

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

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 string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

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

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

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

Use marbles and paint to explore the wild world of shapes and color...and build writing strength, too.

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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!

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

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.

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!

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

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

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

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

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