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.

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.

Need help encouraging your preschool child to organize her toys? Start with this activity, and turn sorting and categorizing into a fun game.

Put your junk mail to good use! Armed with a stack ads and a few simple art supplies, your preschooler can make a cool poster for his room.

Get your preschooler ready for kindergarten by helping them learn numbers 1-10 with homemade snowflake counting cards in this arts and crafts activity.

Want to add a little craftiness to preschool math? Break out the glue gun and create a button board!

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!

This cookie dough handles like molding clay, but also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills.

Practice counting to 100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

Got a shoelace? Got a kindergartener? Help your child learn to use the number line by creating one out of a lace.

Bring the classic game of "Red Rover" up to date with color and shape recognition skills for your child.

Help your kindergartener learn to manage a telephone with this homemade keyboard that also helps kids practice letters and numbers.

Do a little kitchen chemistry as you make your own bubble solution and bubble-wand shapes!

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Introduce colors to shadow play with this creative and irresistible science activity!

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations

Your child can count out six pumpkins or six crayons, but what is a six all by itself? ThatÃs a much harder concept to grasp.

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

This fun, addition focused take on the classic card game War is a great way to help your child get a strong hold on addition.

A fun activity for a hot day, this will give young kids a chance to experiment with beginning science and math â and splash around in the process!

Create a counting book, in order from 1-30, to help your child figure out a variety of ways of recognizing and representing numbers.

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!

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

Make caterpillars out of papier-mache and let the kids explore their inner creepy crawler.

This Halloween, encourage your child to create a super sweet mosaic. They'll make a candy corn pumpkin and then decide if they want to eat it, or keep it!

This project commemorates the milestone of completing the first 100 days of school, while giving your child a manipulative to practice counting to 100.

Here's a tasty way to give your child some counting practice.

Help your child develop his counting and language skills with this fun activity. He'll be a number hero for a day and learn about safety while he's at it.

Serve up this pretend play activity to your preschooler to give her counting skills a healthy boost.