Using only the elements in your backyard, make paintbrushes with your child and create truly homemade works of art.

This school bus is easy to make, and all you need are some common household items.

This activity is a fun way to "go fishing" with your preschooler, while learning about the concepts of freezing and melting.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

A fun activity for a hot day, this will give young kids a chance to experiment with beginning science and math â and splash around in the process!

Have the kids make Mom a wooden "Love Box" for Mother's Day (or any other day!) to show her how much she means to everyone.

Play this game that lets you create your own silly monster drawing and helps your child practice her counting skills!

The next time your kids are pent up inside because of bad weather, try hosting a Balloon Olympics!

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

Here is a guide to making a felt busy book that's perfect for focusing on specific learning areas with your child.

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.

Make a sweet, budget-friendly treat for your loved ones with these trick-or-treat lollipops.

Help your child build her very own science laboratory at home for experiments and science projects. This is a quick, easy, and fun educational tool!

Have a blast celebrating the poetic prose of Dr. Seuss as you hop your way to better vocabulary and reading skills. Play Hop on Pop Hopscotch!

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

Improve your preschooler's knowledge of the alphabet by playing games with your own homemade wooden letters!

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

This scavenger hunt game is simple, but it's fun, and it will arm your children with the directional vocabulary they should master in time for kindergarten.

This delicious recipe is one that both kids with and without gluten sensitivity will love! A familiar classic is reworked into a healthy snack.

Help your child learn the language of mathematics through cupcakes with this fun counting activity.

Help your kindergartener make and play a "Hop On Pop"-inspired card game--a fun way to learn word families!

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

Help your preschooler or preschooler with shape recognition, math, and matching by creating your own personal shapes cards, good for home or car.

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

Your kindergarten artist will love practicing math and coloring when he makes his own unique paint-by-numbers! This activity is creative and educational.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

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.

Did you know magnifying glasses are magic? This hands-on activity has kids using magnifying glasses to engage with the world around them and look close to examine what they find.

This preschool activity uses paint chips to help your child learn about different shades of colors and how to find different colors in nature.

Like "Mother, May I?", this following directions tag game focuses on gross motor skills, but to the theme Itsy Bitsy Spider. Fun indoors or outside!