Kids get to race a felt mouse through a homemade maze using magnets in this exciting 1st grade arts and crafts activity.

Use your cookie cutters with jello to have the kids create a story with the shapes they choose.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Make beautiful print block art with your kids using recycled materials.

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

This simple activity is not only fun, it's also a useful way to organize children's closets — and offer kids some autonomy to boot.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

Enjoy making these no bake cookies with the kids and teach them important lessons in early math skills.

Turn the marks on the wall into art! Create fingerpaint flamingos, herons and ostriches with this fun craft for kids.

Kids learn about surrealism as they cut out items from magazines and combine them to create their own piece of surrealistic juxtaposition.

Teach your kids about colors and patterns while creating a beautiful work of art.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Travel to ancient Mesopotamia with your kids by carving your own unique cuneiform cylinder seals.

Boost creativity with this simple activity where kids make up biographies of people they find in old magazines.

In this activity, kids use sponges to make textured stamps for homemade, artistic Valentine's Day cards.

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

Help your kids put together a travel journal for your family's next vacation to get them reading, writing, and thinking about what's happening on the trip.

Here's a fun Fourth of July craft that will delight kids of many ages.

Enlist the whole family and helpful friends in this heartwarming activity for Dad. Boost kids' writing skills in the process, too!

This baking activity lets kids play with frosting, while experimenting with colors, and how they mix.

This fun marbled paper craft uses things you're likely to have around your house, and it teaches kids some simple chemistry too!

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

Kids will love painting shapes of objects in a still life while using strong colors showing highlights and shadows.

This entertaining magic trick will 'trick' kids into using math skill to impress their friends!

Kids will have a hoot constructing this cute owl craft from a recycled toilet paper roll.

In this preschool counting game, kids learn to count with their fingers, but without their eyes!

Explore scientific concepts with this experiment that introduces kids to the scientific method!

This is a great activity for when the kids get a little stir crazy. It works indoors or out.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

Here's a wacky activity that kids are sure to love: make a face that has shoelaces for hair!