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

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

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.

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

Your preschooler will have a great time painting on a foil background to create a stunning, shiny work of art!

Make a textured name plate to hang on your preschooler's door!

Build a peek-a-boo book and give your child a fun vocabulary and reading boost, on the fly!

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

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.

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

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

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!

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!