Play with, explore, and describe everyday objects with your preschooler to get her ready to learn basic math skills and concepts.

Boost your preschooler's math and verbal skills by having her participate in simple, fun activities that teach her how to sort, count, and categorize objects.

Set up a fun guessing game for your curious kindergartener, one that will test her ability to use all five of her senses.

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

With some cookie dough and ordinary household objects, let your kindergartener explore how fossil imprints are made.

Create clear sound shakers so your preschooler can observe and compare the different sounds that objects make!

Try a 100th Day of School Scavenger Hunt with your preschooler, and send her on the search for objects of different colors!

Help your preschooler practice observing and experimenting with this exciting activity where they'll get to examine objects below the water's surface!

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

Encourage your child to compare and contrast a wide variety of autumn-themed items by weighing various objects and recording their findings.

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

Introduce the idea of measuring weight to your preschooler or kindergartener by making a fun and easy-to-use bungee scale to weigh household objects.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

This guessing game is a hoot. And it helps teach kids to categorize a set of objects-- a key skill for preschool.

Sorting objects by size, color, shape, or function is an important concept in kindergarten math, and it's the perfect excuse for a little housekeeping!

This St. Patrick's-themed color game reinforces your kindergartener's recognition of green objects, and also gives her reading and listening skills a work out.

Tap into your child's imagination while creating magic water bottles by filling a bottle with objects that they can search for and locate.

In this awesome science fair project idea, kids will be attempting to pick up different objects using snail slime.

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

Teach your preschooler color recognition using this handy egg carton sorter. She will group objects by color and learn to recognize their names with this tool.

This measurement activity uses feet to compare objects, but not the ones found on rulers and measuring sticks...the feet on your child's own body!

Make necklaces, bracelets, belts, or garlands in this simple and fun activity that recycles old objects and let's your child make one-of-a-kind pieces of art!

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

Looking for a fun way to display photos? Give recycled objects a second life by turning them into a creative photo holder.

Lots of everyday objects can be fun, whether it's buttons, beans, or Lego blocks. Here's an activity that uses coins to build problem-solving strategies.

Want to help your kid with math? Get out the grab bag! This game is a great way to practice the tricky business of associating numbers with sets of objects.

This fun and easy activity encourages the skill of overlapping objects, while your child gets to draw his own farm and color in clip art farm animals!

Build your kindergartener's reading comprehension by making a classic box of objects that invite them into the books you're reading together.

Does a paper clip float? Does a sponge sink? Let your child find out! This experiment is simple science fun.