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Help your child make an imaginative, inexpensive spaceship from recycled materials. When the spaceship is ready, count backwards from ten and then BLAST-OFF!

Here's Twist 'N Turn: let your preschooler or pre-kindergartener be outside and active while learning about shapes, colors, directions, and word recognition.

This copying game is like a hopped up version of Simon Says, but it lets kids use their bodies to practice patterning, a key skill in early math.

Reuse old cardboard boxes and popsicle sticks to create a miniature sled that is perfect for pretend play with dolls or action figures.

Here's a preschool color collage activity to help your child work on their sorting skills, and create a beautiful addition to the refrigerator gallery.

This Hanukkah countdown craft will help your little one count the eight nights of Hanukkah. Make a Hanukkah countdown calendar with your child.

These bean bag games are a fun and inexpensive way to keep your first grader learning! Work on social skills, coordination, math, or even spelling!

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

Make this paper chain calendar and give your child a visual reminder of the passing of time.

Play with shapes, like triangles and circles, to help your child review the different kinds and create a new picture!

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

Your child will practice her counting and number recognition as she matches printed numbers to the same number of repetitions of a simple design.

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

Practice counting with this winter kindergarten art project! As your child sculpts a clay igloo, he will work on math and dexterity and learn about snow.

This do-it-anywhere guessing game helps reinforce number concepts. And it's a blast to play.

Dinosaurs were huge creatures that left behind huge footprints that lasted for millions of years. In this science fair project, kids learn how dinosaur tracks were left behind!

Make a mixed up animal collage and help your preschooler build her visual arts and math skills along the way.

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

Use old coffee cans and socks to make a beanbag toss game for kids in preschool and kindergarten. This activity is great for math and coordination.

Ordinal numbers, or numbers that indicate order, are the focus of this fun math game for young learners.

Learn how to count in Spanish. Your child will practice her numbers and build her reading skills while learning a bit about Latino culture along the way.

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

Help your child see numbers three ways with this simple grab-and-go game, great for quick practice in the car.

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

Got a fussy eater on your hands? Here's a great way to make fruit appear more appealing, and make eating it a lot more fun, too!

Here's a fun math-oriented arts and crafts activity for your preschool or kindergarten child: create a gumdrop topiary and practice counting along the way.

In this activity, students build a house of sticks, just like the second little pig in the classic story, The Three Little Pigs. Then, they program an educational robot to push down the house, much like the wolf who “blows the house down.”

Help your child stay physically and mentally active with this group aerobic fitness game that's good for the heart and mind alike.

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