Preschool Activities : Page 10

Here are 3 inexpensive ways for kids to make their own beads, from scratch.

Get your preschooler to practice a steady hand and celebrate Read Across America Day with this challenging stacking activity inspired by Dr. Seuss.

This activity turns your kid into the family weatherman. Plus, it teaches him to collect data and begin to understand graphing.

Make a handprint turkey with your child to celebrate Thanksgiving. A handprint turkey makes a great base for Thanksgiving coasters, note cards, or place cards.

Introduce your preschooler to patterns in this arts and craft activity that uses household materials to create and paint scratch prints.

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?

This activity will help your child build his early math skills by practicing shape recognition.

If using regular watercolors is getting a little dry, liven things up by using salt to create a beautiful painting with unique crystal texture!

Give your child a chance to experiment with how things grow. And throw in something extra to up the fun factor even more...her very own grass pet!

Maracas are most commonly found in music around the world. Introduce your child to percussion and rhythm with this easy-to-make instrument.

Be the mane attraction by creating a lion out of leaves! This wild craft keeps kids engaged and makes for fabulous art.

Forget the measuring stick! This fun math activity uses a body part, your child's hand, as a ruler.

Make a peace dove to commemorate Black History Month and hang it in your home as a quiet reminder of the spirit of the movement.

This is an easy counting game for preschoolers and toddlers. Great for car trips!

Craft a pirate telescope using an old paper towel roll, and get ready for some goofy pirate adventures!

Try a 100th Day of School Scavenger Hunt with your preschooler, and send her on the search for objects of different colors!

Stringing beads helps develop the hand-eye coordination kids need to write, and noodles are sized just right for junior jewelry-makers.

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

Here's a tasty summer holiday treat: oatmeal chocolate chip cookie sandwiches filled with cinnamon ice cream.

Show your preschooler how to construct this very special planter for Mom. It makes a great pick-me-up, and it's easy for kids to make in a flash!

Reuse the tops of tissue boxes as photo frames for treasured family photos in this fun craft activity.

Build memory and motor skills with this musical movement game!

If your kid likes to color, you probably know all too well that crayons go quickly. Put those crayon stubs to use by creating colorful ironed wax paper art!

Strengthen your child's number recognition skills with this fun game using an old, empty egg carton!

Discover the wonders of simple clay by pressing flowers into a modeling medium!

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

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

In this arts and crafts activity, encourage your preschooler to create these shape-stick puppets which can be used to put on plays or act out stories with.

Here's a springtime arts and crafts activity for preschoolers: make batik Easter eggs using melted candle wax and homemade dye.