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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

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

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

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet 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.

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

This fun and educational Halloween craft is a fantastic way to celebrate the holiday while building your child's letter and phonics skills.

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.

Make a fuzzy bear with your kindergartener to build up early reading skills and introduce her to phonics.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Draw letter people with your child to help her take a closer look at the letters, and see the differences between them.

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

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

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