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Make a First Day of School Mobile to help commemorate the big step from preschool to kindergarten and ease those first day jitters!

A great way to cultivate awareness, focus and attention in the present is through movement. Mindful movement can also decrease stress and anxiety and increase calm.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

In this activity, your child will consider the meaning of "culture" and what comprises their family's culture. They will draw pictures of aspects of their family's culture, then choose an aspect of it to explore further.

In this activity, children create rising foam as they reflect on the many ways they have grown over the past months and learn how a "beginner's mind" is helpful.

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.

Looking for a funky new way to paint? Try paint dough, a sparkling pasty paint made from just three kitchen ingredients!

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

Get active at home by pretending to be different animals! Use this fun and engaging activity to move your body, get silly, and practice gross motor skills.

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.

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

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

This Rudolph craft will help your kid make a goofy and memorable ornament. Make a Rudolph craft this winter to bring some added merriment to your Christmas.

This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

Budding fashion designers will love this chance to design and create their very own holiday wear.

Learn about construction while making a fun new toy, the Mini-Marshmallow Popper.

Your child can make her own at home with a little paint and her own foot. Make a whole colony!

Make a flame-free menorah from beans, pasta, and tissue paper with this simple Hannukah craft activity! 

Ringing a quiet bell is also a great way to support focus and bring kids into the present moment so they can be aware of what they are experiencing inside.

This homemade alphabet game will keep your kindergartener on his toes and help him practice letter, numbers, and taking turns. The whole family can participate!

Put your individual fingerprint on the 100th Day of School (literally!) with this activity.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.

Applesauce doesn't just have to be for a bowl -- your child can transform it into an easy-to-hold treat!

Create your very own adorable reindeer to keep you company throughout the holiday season.

Turkey cupcakes are quirky fowl-themed desserts that bring extra cheer to your Thanksgiving meal. Make turkey cupcakes that your kids will want to gobble up.

A heart collage is the perfect Valentine's Day art project for your young artist. Make a heart collage this February with your child.

How often do we eat with awareness and really taste our food and think about where the food came from? Mindful eating is a great way to practice mindfulness infused with gratitude and appreciation for our food.

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

All your preschooler needs to create a personalized Halloween memento is their two hands and some black paint.