Early Childhood Activities : Page 2

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

Create your very own colorful stained glass collage Easter egg.

Kids are sure to be entranced by the magic of the ocean when they create their very own ocean in a bottle.

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.

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

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.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Design a colorful leprechaun trap—and make some memories—with this fun St. Patrick's Day craft project!

In this science fair project, young children will become aware of and have the opportunity to experience the four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

Here's a simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.

Encourage your preschooler's creativity with this exciting art project! Every "scratch art" drawing is unique and colorful!

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

Reuse and recycle your CDs by having your kid turn them into colorful, eye-popping suncatchers.

This fun craft will teach your child a little bit about the human skeletal system and can be adapted to teach the biology of many different living animals.

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

Help your child discover the difference between his wants and needs using this poster.

Help your preschooler craft a homemade wind spinning device--a surefire to make your backyard sparkle, and teach her a bit about weather!

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

Combine an introduction to shape and counting with a springtime art project by showing your kindergartener how to create a vibrant rainbow mosaic.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

This creepy, crawly spider fiber arts project is a great way to practice combining different materials to create an interesting work of decorative art.

Looking for a noisemaker that's more musical than your kid's typical banging and clanging? Make a paper plate tambourine!

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

Does your preschooler like cereal? Explore numbers with everyday objects and food with this fun counting activity.

After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants, and they may even develop a green thumb in the process!