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

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.

Give snack time a fresh floral touch with this flower-shaped garden snack, perfect for tea parties with your preschooler!

Help your kid get in touch with their wild side with this Big Bad Wolf mask! Bring this fairy tale villain to life with simple crafting supplies.

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

Have your kid build an ice sculpture in this activity that's so fast, fun, and messy it's the perfect way to demonstrate how much fun experiments can be!

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.

Boost your child's early literacy skills and create alphabet tiles she can play and practice with - great reinforcement for ABC's, phonics and writing!

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

This very physical game gets math off the page and into the real world-- and it works on number sense and estimation, key skills for kindergarten readiness.

This activity is a fun way to fill up your child's tummy and spend time together creating edible lessons in the kitchen.

Turn ordinary cookies into puppets and create edible performance art!

Want to help your child learn more about his community while boosting creativity? Set up a post office play station right in your very own home!

It can feel good to hit something when you're mad. The more your child pounds, squeezes, and mashes this dough, the better these play dough cookies will taste!

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

In this arts and crafts activity, encourage your preschooler to create these shape-stick puppets which can be used to put on plays or act out stories with.

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

Save money and get creative by helping your preschooler create and make her own unique sketchbook to put her art in.

With this "tightrope" game, your child will practice balancing skills and gain experience with the directions forward, backward, and sideways.

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

This simple movement activity helps improve listening skills, as your child will be required to discriminate between sound and silence.

This outdoor game will help your child practice observational skills and visual identification while working in some exercise, too!

This variation on the classic group game "Mother, May I?" can be played with one or more child and involves continual participation.

Improve your preschooler's knowledge of the alphabet by playing games with your own homemade wooden letters!

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Here's a tasty summer holiday treat: oatmeal chocolate chip cookie sandwiches filled with cinnamon ice cream.

Build memory and motor skills with this musical movement game!

This life-sized self-portrait activity encourages children to explore what makes them special, and then portray it with arts and crafts!

Make matzoh more fun! Help your preschooler or kindergartener design a matzoh puzzle from broken pieces of the flatbread.

Want to create some really unusual artwork and introduce your little artist to color combining? Try out some bubble painting!