Preschool Activities : Page 7

When it comes to working kids' muscles, nothing beats an obstacle course! Here are some easy ideas for creating your own course at home.

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

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

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

Encourage your child to eat nutritiously by having them build this delicious summer fruit cone!

Melted crayon art is all the rage right now. It's simple, inexpensive, and there's no wrong way to do it!

Celebrate the colors of the American flag with this playful craft project!

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

Help your little builder move up in the world with this recycled cardboard castle that's just the right size for a young king and his loyal stuffed subjects.

Your little one can welcome the reindeer with an adorable reindeer portrait all while learning the difference between small, medium and large.

Craft a glamorous crown that your preschooler can wear when he demonstrates good behavior!

Here's a fun activity that will help your child learn to cut on a line, practice fine motor control, and create a beautiful garland, too.

Make a periscope with milk cartons and mirrors! This preschool activity is great for playing secret agent and learning simple physics.

Using simple materials, children will create a movement card game that the whole family can play together.

This simple and seasonal kid activity turns glue and food coloring into beautiful autumn leaves that will last forever.

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

Combine a recycling craft with ABC practice with this homemade foam craft idea.

Kids love to hear about themselves. And reading about themselves is even better! This personal yearbook will let them record all their important facts.

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.

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

This Play-Doh counting game will improve your little one's math skills and the hanging Christmas trees will make great decoration.

This fun math game will help develop your child's counting skills and number recognition skills.

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

Have fun with the kids by "shaping up" your standard chocolate chip cookie recipe, and teach kids about sorting and shapes while you're at it.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for your preschooler: make pendulum paintings using only a funnel, canvas, and paint!

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

Your preschooler will have a great time painting on a foil background to create a stunning, shiny work of art!

Christmas stencils let your preschooler make his mark on the holiday. Make Christmas stencils with your young crafter this holiday season.

Make a mixed up animal collage and help your preschooler build her visual arts and math skills along the way.

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.