Kitchen-Table Play and Learn: Activities and Lessons for Building Your Preschooler's Vital Developmental Skills

Thirty easy ways you can give your children a head start on essential education skills

Kitchen-Table Play & Learn gives you structured yet fun lessons to teach your preschoolers the basics of education at home. These 30 lessons include games and activities that help you hone your children's motor skills, number and letter recognition, logic, and visual discrimination, as well as expose them to math, writing, and reading.

Tara Copley holds a degree in elementary education with a specialization in reading. She designed many of the Kitchen-Table Play & Learn activities while raising and teaching her infant and four-year-old sons. She lives in Woodlands, Texas.

Andrea Custer developed many of the Kitchen-Table Play & Learn activities while raising and teaching her infant and four-year-old daughters. She holds a Bachelor of Science from California State University at Sacramento and lives in Cameron Park, California.