Here's a quick and easy recipe for homemade play dough that doesn't involve any cooking! This bright and colorful modeling clay makes a great instant toy!

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.

Try this arts and crafts activity with your preschooler: make bread from yeast dough to teach her about the science behind bread baking.

It can feel good to hit something when you're mad. The more your child pounds, squeezes, and mashes this dough, the better these play dough cookies will taste!

Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.

Enjoy some autumn fun, and develop measurement skills with this sweet-smelling fall art project.

Want to help your child learn more about his community while boosting creativity? Set up a post office play station right in your very own home!

Is your kid struggling with number recognition? Here's a great way to go fishing for numbers that will feel more like play than counting practice.

Serve up this pretend play activity to your preschooler to give her counting skills a healthy boost.

Kids learn how to play Jan-Ken-Pon, Japanese rock-paper-scissors, in this fun preschool activity.

Your kid and his friends will have a blast taking turns playing the role of a traffic cop in this Labor Day version of the classic game Red Light, Green Light.

Plastic pipes and pipe connectors make a quick and fun activity for preschoolers. Try some of our pipe challenges!

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

Let your preschooler create something cute while making something delicious to eat: create bread sculptures, or shapes of bread dough!

This simple movement activity helps improve listening skills, as your child will be required to discriminate between sound and silence.

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

Preschoolers need to practice hopping, skipping, and other "gross motor" skills. Why not make it fun by challenging them to move like their favorite animals?

Your child will create a textured mosaic by painting, then arranging 50 pumpkin seeds so they resemble a pumpkin.

Here's Twist 'N Turn: let your preschooler or pre-kindergartener be outside and active while learning about shapes, colors, directions, and word recognition.

In this variation on musical chairs, no one gets kicked "out" of the game -- instead, they get to tell other kids what to do!

When your child is itching for a game, consider ditching Hide and Seek in favor of Shape and Seek. Here's how it works:

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

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

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.

Kids love making shapes with Play-Doh, so they'll love creating their own colorful playful clay!

This copying game is like a hopped up version of Simon Says, but it lets kids use their bodies to practice patterning, a key skill in early math.

In this activity, your child fills jars with water to learn about acoustics, and practices mixing colors to form a rainbow of colors and sounds.

Your child will practice her counting and number recognition as she matches printed numbers to the same number of repetitions of a simple design.

Challenge your preschooler to a game of shape match-up--an entertaining way to boost her observational ability.