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Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.

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!

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!

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

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.

Serve up this pretend play activity to your preschooler to give her counting skills a healthy boost.

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

Kids learn how to play Jan-Ken-Pon, Japanese rock-paper-scissors, in this fun preschool activity.

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.

Plastic pipes and pipe connectors make a quick and fun activity for preschoolers. Try some of our pipe challenges!

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

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

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.

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

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?

Your child will create a textured mosaic by painting, then arranging 50 pumpkin seeds so they resemble a pumpkin.

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

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

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

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.

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

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.

In this activity, your child fills jars with water to learn about acoustics, and practices mixing colors to form a rainbow of colors and sounds.

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

Your child will practice her counting and number recognition as she matches printed numbers to the same number of repetitions of a simple design.

Try this new twist to the traditional memory game to help your learner match number symbols to the correct quantity while sharpening their memory skills!

Challenge your preschooler to a game of shape match-up--an entertaining way to boost her observational ability.

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

Get your preschooler to practice a steady hand and celebrate Read Across America Day with this challenging stacking activity inspired by Dr. Seuss.

Kids love making shapes with Play-Doh, so they'll love creating their own colorful playful clay!