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

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.

Give snack time a fresh floral touch with this flower-shaped garden snack, perfect for tea parties with your preschooler!

Help your kid get in touch with their wild side with this Big Bad Wolf mask! Bring this fairy tale villain to life with simple crafting supplies.

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

Have your kid build an ice sculpture in this activity that's so fast, fun, and messy it's the perfect way to demonstrate how much fun experiments can be!

Ask a child if they want to practice the alphabet and you'll likely get snubbed. But ask if they'd like to play letter detective? You might hook yourself a fish.

Boost your child's early literacy skills and create alphabet tiles she can play and practice with - great reinforcement for ABC's, phonics and writing!

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

This activity is a fun way to fill up your child's tummy and spend time together creating edible lessons in the kitchen.

Turn ordinary cookies into puppets and create edible performance art!

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!

It can feel good to hit something when you're mad. The more your child pounds, squeezes, and mashes this dough, the better these play dough cookies will taste!

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

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.

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

This simple movement activity helps improve listening skills, as your child will be required to discriminate between sound and silence.

This outdoor game will help your child practice observational skills and visual identification while working in some exercise, too!

This variation on the classic group game "Mother, May I?" can be played with one or more child and involves continual participation.

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

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Here's a tasty summer holiday treat: oatmeal chocolate chip cookie sandwiches filled with cinnamon ice cream.

Build memory and motor skills with this musical movement game!

This life-sized self-portrait activity encourages children to explore what makes them special, and then portray it with arts and crafts!

Make matzoh more fun! Help your preschooler or kindergartener design a matzoh puzzle from broken pieces of the flatbread.

This Easter, try putting on a guided family scavenger hunt to help your kindergartener track down the Easter eggs.

Want to create some really unusual artwork and introduce your little artist to color combining? Try out some bubble painting!

Help your preschooler to create this artful reminder of home for the first days of school. Using family photos your child can collage a memento of home.

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.