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Your child can celebrate Mexican culture by making his very own percussion instrument using simple materials such as paper plates and tissue paper.

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

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

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

Draw letter people with your child to help her take a closer look at the letters, and see the differences between them.

Celebrate your little one's move to big kid school by throwing a very special graduation party complete with friends, crafts, and lots of energetic fun.

Brighten up your home with this fun activity! Make a summer sun print and teach your child the art of easy print making.

This copying game is like a hopped up version of Simon Says, but it lets kids use their bodies to practice patterning, a key skill in early math.

This activity turns kids into word detectives - scouring their way through documents in search of their prey.

Help your child craft a magnetic menorah that they can safely "light" themselves!

Make interesting art and learn about shapes, lines and patterns by using spaghetti noodles.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

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

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

Chocolate rice krispie treats get a fun spin in our recipe. Make chocolate rice krispie treats shaped like chocolate kisses for a special Valentine's Day treat.

This creepy, crawly spider fiber arts project is a great way to practice combining different materials to create an interesting work of decorative art.

What do you get when you combine science and fairies? Fairy scientists who make their own potion, of course! This activity promotes critical thinking skills as your child mixes, experiments, and creates their very own fairy potions.

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

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

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

This quick and simple preschool mirror activity will introduce your child to the science of reflection and light with a flashlight experiment and picture game.

Challenge your preschooler to a game of shape match-up--an entertaining way to boost her observational ability.

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.

Help your preschooler explore the effects of light and shadow, and make a pretty sun print at the same time!

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

In this activity, your child will learn to name the numbers from 1 through 5 and she'll practice her grouping skills.

Cultivating a community of love, support, and trust in your family is important. Use this heartwarming activity to connect, have fun, and support your child’s social emotional health.

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

Treasure hunts are tons of fun and they're a great way to introduce maps. Set the stage, and your kid's imagination will do the rest.