Help your little builder move up in the world with this recycled cardboard castle that's just the right size for a young king and his loyal stuffed subjects.

This guessing game is a hoot. And it helps teach kids to categorize a set of objects-- a key skill for preschool.

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

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.

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

This flexible activity for preschoolers features jellybeans, counting, coloring, and the five senses.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Here's a Halloween, math activity: have your preschooler or pre-kindergartener carve shapes into a Jack-O-Lantern face and boost her shape recognition skills.

Make your own personalized set of letter flash cards to get him thinking about the alphabet while boosting his fine motor skills in the process.

This fun math game will help develop your child's counting skills and number recognition skills.

Your child will enjoy feeling independent and creative as she develops her fine motor skills while making this necklace using just yarn and colored straws.

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

Build memory and motor skills with this musical movement game!

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

Increase your preschooler's observation skills with this fun and colorful science experiment!

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.

Boost fine motor skills and get in the spirit of fall with this fun wreath-making project.

This sunshiny art project is perfect for a rainy day and it helps preschoolers with fine motor skills.

This activity is a great way to practice sorting, counting, matching, and other early math skills--- on the fly.

Enjoy some autumn fun, and develop measurement skills with this sweet-smelling fall art project.

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

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

Have your preschooler paint like Monet, and build crucial handwriting skills at the same time!

This activity will help your child build his early math skills by practicing shape recognition.

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

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

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

In this activity your little one will throw a beanbag at a numbered target to help improve their number recognition skills.

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!