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.

Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!

Here's a fun activity that will help your child learn to cut on a line, practice fine motor control, and create a beautiful garland, too.

This slightly messy, but tons-of-fun tactile activity will cement the idea of the land and water as pictured on maps in your young learner's mind.

Does your child love toy cars? Here’s a terrific way for them to play with their toy cars and practice number recognition skills at the same time.

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

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.

With this fun activity, you can help your preschooler make an cute shopping notepad to keep and use or give away as a gift. Here's how:

Introduce your child to the symbols of fall with this easy-to-make matching game that will hone observational skills and increase your kid's attention span.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

Here's a quick and easy recipe for homemade play dough that doesn't involve any cooking! This bright and colorful modeling clay makes a great instant toy!

Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.

This work of art doubles as a Halloween treat! Your little one will love using marshmallows to make a ghost that's as sweet as it is spooky!

Combine fun sensory play with early number awareness in a squishy sun catcher project. It's a fun way for your kid to learn about numbers.

Instead of filling your preschooler's tummy with sugary sweets this season, let her take a bite out of this healthy and delicious candy cane alternative.

Craft a glamorous crown that your preschooler can wear when he demonstrates good behavior!

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

Play the fridge magnet name game with your preschooler to help prepare her for kindergarten reading and writing.

Make a fuzzy bear with your kindergartener to build up early reading skills and introduce her to phonics.

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

Looking for a noisemaker that's more musical than your kid's typical banging and clanging? Make a paper plate tambourine!

Forget the measuring stick! This fun math activity uses a body part, your child's hand, as a ruler.

Batik is a fabric dying technique usually done with hot wax. This flour-and-water method is kid-safe and easy, and it creates beautiful batik designs.

Your preschooler will not realize she's practicing her counting skills while playing with this interactive cereal abacus!

Disguise a lesson focused on shape recognition as a Santa collage, and your pre-kindergartener won't even realize she's learning!

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

Valentine's Day means an avalanche of cards and candy, but where to put them all? This is the perfect solution to help your kid keep track of all his goodies.

Increase your preschooler's observation skills with this fun and colorful science experiment!

This activity spotlights everyone's favorite reindeer, Rudolph, and preserves your child's handprints in his "antlers".