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

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

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

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

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.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

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!

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

Jump into pretend play this Easter with a classic preschool arts and crafts activity: make a bunny paper bag puppet!

In this leap frog activity, your child will use their muscles to jump over friends and onto lily pads as they practices number recognition.

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.

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

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

Here's Twist 'N Turn: let your preschooler or pre-kindergartener be outside and active while learning about shapes, colors, directions, and word recognition.

Let your child experience the fun of collage art while jumping into a little bee science with this bee-utiful busy bee craft.

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.

When it comes to working kids' muscles, nothing beats an obstacle course! Here are some easy ideas for creating your own course at home.

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

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

Is your kid struggling with number recognition? Here's a great way to go fishing for numbers that will feel more like play than counting practice.

Preschoolers need to practice hopping, skipping, and other "gross motor" skills. Why not make it fun by challenging them to move like their favorite animals?

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

Bring the classic game of "Red Rover" up to date with color and shape recognition skills for your child.

In this activity, you will create a magical box to help your child learn her letter sounds. Here's how to play the Abracadabra learning game!

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

Here's a simple arts and crafts activity to do with your preschooler: make a moon winder toy! All you need is a plastic lid, colored paper, twine, and glue.

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