This adorable toy is fun to play with and easy to make. Even better, you should be able to find all the materials you need lying around your house.

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!

In this activity, you'll find out an easy way to make your own pretend potato -- out of an old pair of stockings!

This engaging, fun, pattern resist painting is inspired by your little one's love of shapes.

A plastic tray is the perfect tool to teach your little one how to count. Try out this activity, and your child will have her numbers down in no time.

Help your child make a robot! This robot won't talk or follow orders, but he's cute as a button and making him is the perfect project for a rainy day.

Try this fun and interactive collage activity with your preschooler to teach her the "building blocks" of math and architecture.

Help your preschooler create beautifully designed and textured Easter eggs using only brown and purple onion skins for a result that's just to 'dye' for!

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

Create colorful paintings using the turntable on an old record player, and help your child experiment with color and movement!

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

Preschoolers can ply their creativity making recycled egg carton masks in this clever eco-friendly arts and crafts activity.

There's no need to hunt down a cactus for this rainstick craft. In fact, you can recycle items you probably already have on hand.

Here's an arts and crafts activity to help your preschooler or kindergartener create his own set of building blocks to create her dream house and buildings.

A tall glass of lemonade is the perfect summer treat. Make it even better with these creative twists on classic lemonade!

Here's a fun activity that will have your child making their very own television program from scratch!

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

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

Melted crayon art is all the rage right now. It's simple, inexpensive, and there's no wrong way to do it!

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!

Perfect for a hot summer day, this cool arts and crafts activity has your preschooler painting a beautiful, textured print from seashells.

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

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.

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.

Make a periscope with milk cartons and mirrors! This preschool activity is great for playing secret agent and learning simple physics.

Share some old school fun with your preschooler with stilts you can make from items found in your recycling!

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

On a sunny day, make some great art and start a conversation about states of matter in the process with this chalk paint project.

This activity uses the signs and words kids see around them every day, to create a book they can read on their own.

Introduce your preschooler to patterns in this arts and craft activity that uses household materials to create and paint scratch prints.