Activity Books Under $3 for Early Learners

Here’s how you can help your child learn basics like the alphabet and sorting.

By Scholastic Parents Staff
Dec 11, 2024

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Activity Books Under $3 for Early Learners

Dec 11, 2024

If you have a child in preschool or kindergarten, you're probably looking for ways to boost their learning skills and keep them engaged with educational activities. 

The Little Skill Seekers activity books are a key way to advance your child's early learning skills and set them up for success. This is a series of educational workbooks for kids ages 3 to 6 that focuses on the building blocks of early literacy and math skills. The books cover everything from counting and writing letters to matching, sorting, and letter sounds.

Little learners can work their way through different exercises to spot differences or connect the dots in to reveal a picture and then color it in. As your child progresses through the activities, they’ll sharpen their skills while progressing at their own pace to make real-world connections. Your child will feel a huge sense of accomplishment every time they finish an exercise, and you'll love watching them eagerly flip the pages to tackle the next activity.

Workbooks like Little Skill Seekers: Beginning Sounds book offers a stellar introduction to these skills that helps kids practice through picture games and basic spelling exercises. After all, one of the first stops on the bridge to reading is learning letter sounds.

Through completing the workbook, kids increase their alphabet recognition and further develop their phonemic awareness, or the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words. The pictures are bright and colorful, the directions are simple, and the book is designed to let kids work at their own pace while growing their skills.

Find more expert-approved kindergarten books, tips, and resources at our guide to getting ready for kindergarten

Shop Little Skill Seekers books below! You can find these workbooks and activities and much more at The Scholastic Store

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