Celebrate Read Across America Day with your kindergartener by playing an alphabet balloon volley game inspired by "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" by Dr. Seuss.

Check out this twist on a peanut butter and banana sandwich. The banana replaces the bread to make the perfect fun and nutritious after-school snack.

Let your preschooler play with her food by making snack logs out of celery, peanut butter and corn flakes.

Recycle your cereal boxes and engage your child's creativity with this fun arts and crafts project.

Do you want your child to remember time spent with loved ones and the satisfaction of giving a gift with real meaning? Try making these tasty treats!

This fun craft is perfect to do in the spring, and opens up the opportunity to teach your child about birds.

Your child will "build" a snowman and lace her way around the paper plates, boosting her manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination.

Winter is a great time to create a textured polar bear. Not only will your child gain practice identifying shapes, they'll also work on fine motor skills.

Design a set of uppercase and lowercase alphabet cards, then use them to play memory and phonics games!

Make an edible bracelet from Froot Loops and a shoelace! This Block Institute art activity will engage your special needs or mainstream child at snacktime.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

This activity introduces growth mindset and looking at mistakes as opportunities to learn and grow, rather than obstacles. Your child will understand the difference between seeing a mistake as a learning opportunity, rather than as a disappointment.

In this activity, you and your child will practice taking a movement or calming break during homework or when feeling tired. Then, your child will write about and draw what the experience was like for them.

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

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

These colorful paper butterflies make cute hanging decorations for your child's room, but they can also be used for active play.

Does the idea of taking your child to an art museum sound daunting? Create your own museum and give your child some practice with shapes!

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

Your kindergartener will improve his fine motor skills and learn beginning baking techniques as he helps you concoct this crumbly apple dessert!

Decorating pumpkins is a safer, cleaner alternative to carving. These Cubist art pumpkins are easy and fun to make, and serve as great fall decor.

Hold a magnet marathon! Explore the power of magnets with your kindergartener in this entertaining and simple science game.

This recipe provides a quicker, easier, and slightly healthier way to prepare this classic Louisiana Creole dish.

Honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with this hands-on lesson in how all of us are more alike than different, especially on the inside.

With a few strokes of white paint, kids can transform an old family photograph into a lovely winter scene in this kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Kids generally can't come up with the cash to buy the bling they dream of giving mom. With this project, they can make her jewelry themselves!

In kindergarten, kids work with patterns. Try making this practical but decorative piece of clothing together for fun and math practice.