Preschool Activities : Page 13

Find yourself waffling when your kid asks for a new winter craft? Try your hand at this textured snowman art project for a new twist on painting.

Here's a Halloween, math activity: have your preschooler or pre-kindergartener carve shapes into a Jack-O-Lantern face and boost her shape recognition skills.

Your child will enjoy feeling independent and creative as she develops her fine motor skills while making this necklace using just yarn and colored straws.

Make some fairy tale felt board stories with your child the next time you're looking for a fun activity for a lazy afternoon.

Learn how to make a cape for your little superhero, vampire, or Elvis impersonator. See how to make a cape with this simple tutorial.

Your child will learn more about coins and their denominations as he's asked to identify similar coins.

Make homemade lemonade in a baggie with your preschooler with this fun and easy recipe.

Homemade face paint is a safe and economical way to jazz up your Halloween costume. Even better, this easy-to-make face paint requires just three ingredients!

This autumn science project magically turns green leaves into autumn leaves by using crayon shavings and heat.

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

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

Here's an arts and crafts activity to help your preschooler create her own window mural with simple tempera paints and paintbrushes.

Your little one can welcome the reindeer with an adorable reindeer portrait all while learning the difference between small, medium and large.

Your child can re-use and re-purpose old seeds and paper into something new: decorated paper that can be planted!

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.

In this activity, your child fills jars with water to learn about acoustics, and practices mixing colors to form a rainbow of colors and sounds.

Use common kitchen tools to create an entirely uncommon work of art!

Baking these fun cookies will introduce your child to the concept of cross-sections.

Drift away with this charming craft that lets your child create a paper hot air balloon or two.

This activity is a great way to practice sorting, counting, matching, and other early math skills--- on the fly.

The 100th day of school is an important benchmark for kids in the lower elementary grades. Help your kid create a 100 days of school shirt to celebrate!

This clay doesn't need to go into the oven. Brew up a batch, let your child shape it, and dry overnight. By morning, it's ready for paint. Perfect for holidays!

Teaching kids that stories have an order is important, despite how fun it is to listen to the tale of the tomato that put on his pajamas and went for a swim.

These finger puppets are easy to make, and they're a great way to encourage story-telling and imaginative play.

Let your preschooler create something cute while making something delicious to eat: create bread sculptures, or shapes of bread dough!

Using plants and other items from the outdoors and clothing they already own, your kids can dress up as any one of the four seasons or simply as a Garden.

This activity turns your kid into the family weatherman. Plus, it teaches him to collect data and begin to understand graphing.

Use simple items like clothespins and yarn to craft these adorable little dolls. They're fun to make and even more fun to play with!

Etch designs into discs of plaster of Paris using a traditional whaler technique to create a beautiful artisan necklace.

Help your child think outside the box as they create these festive noisemakers, a fun way to ring in the new year.