Want to add a little craftiness to preschool math? Break out the glue gun and create a button board!

Make some fairy tale felt board stories with your child the next time you're looking for a fun activity for a lazy afternoon.

In these three games, children work on letter recognition skills with the help of some tape, music, and a few stuffed animal friends.

Make a natural wooden peg board to sharpen your child's color skills. Help your little one ace her color matching skills with this natural wooden peg board.

Here are some kindergarten readiness activities that you can do with reused plastic bottle caps.

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

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!

Here's a Halloween arts and crafts activity for your preschooler, pre-kindergartener, or kindergartener: make bat wings of poster board and ribbon.

Your little preschool elf will develop some important fine motor skills while creating an entertaining game: Pin the Star on the Christmas Tree!

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

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

Does your child love toy cars? Here’s a terrific way for them to play with their toy cars and practice number recognition skills at the same time.

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

This do-it-anywhere guessing game helps reinforce number concepts. And it's a blast to play.

Play Number Dash with your preschooler and help them learn to identify numbers, write numbers and learn about organized play.

Using homemade felt alphabet letters and 26 colorful pictures, your preschooler will have a great time as they practice recognizing letters and their sounds.

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

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

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.

Learn how to make a menorah with this simple Hanukkah craft. See how to make a menorah for the Festival of Lights.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

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.

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.

This activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

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

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

Your kid and his friends will have a blast taking turns playing the role of a traffic cop in this Labor Day version of the classic game Red Light, Green Light.

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!