This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your child busy, while helping them recognize letters in a creative way.

There's no need to buy musical instruments when you can make your own castanets in less time than it takes to click your way through a percussive song.

Play with shapes, like triangles and circles, to help your child review the different kinds and create a new picture!

This activity uses the signs and words kids see around them every day, to create a book they can read on their own.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

Treasure hunts are tons of fun and they're a great way to introduce maps. Set the stage, and your kid's imagination will do the rest.

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

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

Play Number Dash with your preschooler and help him learn to identify numbers, write numbers and learn about organized play.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

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

This imaginative art activity will help your child to better understand symmetry and explore color and shape.

This outdoor game will help your child practice observational skills and visual identification while working in some exercise, too!

In this playful preschool arts and crafts activity, your child will create a cute and colorful caterpillar using pom-poms, googly eyes, and a clothespin.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

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

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

Want to add a little craftiness to preschool math? Break out the glue gun and create a button board!

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

In this creative arts and crafts activity, children will design and create their very own alphabet tree!

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

Try this kooky, spooky arts and crafts activity with your preschooler: make gummy worm ice cubes!

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

This life-sized self-portrait activity encourages children to explore what makes them special, and then portray it with arts and crafts!

Instead of painting a picture of a whale, let your preschooler make their own whale toy using a paper bag and some recycled art supplies.

Make frog feet sponge prints with your child for a fun and educational crafts activity.