Preschool Activities : Page 5

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

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.

During this chilly winter season, try this fun indoor craft with your preschooler to help him explore art concepts like shape, form and texture.

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

Boost shape recognition with this matching game where your child will pair up sticks to create simple shapes.

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

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

A great way to cultivate awareness, focus and attention in the present is through movement. Mindful movement can also decrease stress and anxiety and increase calm.

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

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!

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Let your child play with scissors! Put them to work, creating a book that will keep them busy, and help them practice their letters, too.

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!

Create a fun fall leaf rubbing with your child to explore shapes and textures this fall.

Help your child develop her letter recognition skills throughout the week leading up to Valentineâs Day with this simple activity.

Set aside the doilies and the ribbons for a unique Valentine craft full of quirky charm.

In this variation on musical chairs, no one gets kicked "out" of the game -- instead, they get to tell other kids what to do!

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

Your child will practice her counting and number recognition as she matches printed numbers to the same number of repetitions of a simple design.

Reuse and recycle your CDs by having your kid turn them into colorful, eye-popping suncatchers.

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

During Chinese New Year festivities, you see lanterns everywhere. Your child can make her very own red and gold lanterns to display at home.

This simple activity is not only fun, it's also a useful way to organize children's closets — and offer kids some autonomy to boot.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

Jump into pretend play this Easter with a classic preschool arts and crafts activity: make a bunny paper bag puppet!