It's an exciting holiday for your youngster--the first Christmas she can read. Enhance her verbal skills by attaching magnets to Christmas images and encouraging her to narrate her own unique holiday tale!

This year, make chocolate-dipped apricot gelt as a healthy alternative to the traditional chocolate coins. Celebrate Hanukkah by making this simple and delicious recipe with your child.

Make your own gelt this Hanukkah to give as a gift to friends and family or to use to play the classic game of Dreidel.

Make this festive New Year's headband with your child this holiday season to ring-in the new year and give your child some great fine motor practice while she's at it!

Use your number sense to complete this activity. Draw from a deck of cards to determine your number. Create an addition problem with that sum. Try to use as many numbers as possible in a quest to take over the game board!

Here's a cookie version of homemade gelt--the gold coin chocolates that are often given as gifts or prizes during Hanukkah. They make a great addition to the dessert buffet or fantastic edible place cards.

One of the most well-known and integral traditions of Hanukkah is lighting the menorah. Your little one may be a bit remiss that he can't participate in the lighting, so help him craft his own magnetic menorah that he can safely "light"!

It is important to have a good understanding of numbers and their values. This guessing game combines logic with number sense. All you need is a deck of cards to get started!

Your child can make sure all her friends get a kiss for New Yearâs Eve by making little bags of Hersheyâs Chocolate Kisses to give as presents.

Check out this exciting way to practice addition! This two player game uses dice to get its point across. Players add up numbers to find different sums. There is plenty of repetition, which makes this game a fun alternative to flash cards.