Preschool Activities : Page 9

Your child will have a blast developing their fine motor skills and working on shape recognition with this bright and cheery crab decoration.

Our heart card is a little piece of modern art that makes a great Valentine's Day gift for a creative friend. Make a heart card using paper, paint, and marbles.

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.

Here's an arts and crafts activity to introduce new music to your child and also to get him inspired to create abstract art with rhythmic flair.

Want to help your child learn more about his community while boosting creativity? Set up a post office play station right in your very own home!

This very physical game gets math off the page and into the real world-- and it works on number sense and estimation, key skills for kindergarten readiness.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for your preschool or pre-kindergarten child: make a tubescope out of a cardboard tube and colored and wax paper!

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!

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

Give your kid the opportunity to experiment with color combinations, and how the tape is applied as they make special cards for friends and family.

Glass candy ornaments are easy to make and fun for kids. Make a batch of glass candy ornaments with your child this holiday season.

Drive away rainy day blues by making a paper tropical fish in bright colors, jazzed up with multi-colored confetti.

These bite-sized pizza mummies are sure to satisfy your kid's monster appetite.

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

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

Make your own volleyball net! This beach ball game is a great activity for kids of all ages to develop coordination and teamwork.

Work with your child's sense of fun by making this interesting snack, where playing with healthy food gets your child eating it

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

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

Your preschooler or kindergartener will count their way to Valentine's Day while designing an imaginative and artistic set of counting cards!

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

Why spend money on fingerpaint when you can make your own? With this recipe, you can stew up your kid's favorite colors right in your kitchen.

Winter is a great time to create a textured polar bear. Not only will your child gain practice identifying shapes, they'll also work on fine motor skills.

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

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

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

Here's a tasty way to give your child some counting practice.

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

Celebrate the colors of the American flag with this playful craft project!

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