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

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

In this game, your child and his friends will need to use their observational skills as they try to figure out who's got the peanut!

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:

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.

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

There's no need to hunt down a cactus for this rainstick craft. In fact, you can recycle items you probably already have on hand.

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