This school bus is easy to make, and all you need are some common household items.

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

Here's an arts and crafts activity to help your preschooler or kindergartener create his own set of building blocks to create her dream house and buildings.

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

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

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Christmas stencils let your preschooler make his mark on the holiday. Make Christmas stencils with your young crafter this holiday season.

Help your preschooler practice counting, matching, and learning colors with this fun game!

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

Forget markers or crayons. For a really unusual art project, close the art supply cabinet, and crack open the pantry! Use rice to make pictures.

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

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

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.

What if your child couldn't see the pictures of a picture book? In this activity, she'll listen to a story without looking at the images, and create her own.

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.

Teaching kids that stories have an order is important, despite how fun it is to listen to the tale of the tomato that put on his pajamas and went for a swim.

Help your child learn her numbers and how to count with this fun number game!

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.

When your child is itching for a game, consider ditching Hide and Seek in favor of Shape and Seek. Here's how it works: