Early Childhood Activities : Page 4

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

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

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

Take math off the page and into the real world. This simple game gives kindergarten kids hands-on practice with basic addition.

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.

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

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

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

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!

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

Counting with one-to-one correspondence is an important kindergarten math skill. This simple activity turns it into a play-anywhere game.

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

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.

Sponges are easy to handle and fun to play with, and your child will love putting these simple, three-piece puzzles together.

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!

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!

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

Teach your child how to create lots and lots of line designs by wrapping string around wooden blocks, and using them to create line-filled prints.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

Turn wait time in the doctor's office or travel time in the car into fun time with your own version of I Spy.

Play this game to help froggie hop home...and teach the number line to your kindergartener while you're at it!

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

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