Early Childhood Holidays Activities

Reuse and recycle your CDs by having your kid turn them into colorful, eye-popping suncatchers.

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

Kids can put old magazines and unwanted clothing to good use by creating an Earth Day-themed multimedia collage in this eco-friendly arts and crafts activity.

Use these pretty egg carton flowers to decorate a spring table. They don't require water, they'll never wilt, and they're perfect for Easter.

This slightly messy, but tons-of-fun tactile activity will cement the idea of the land and water as pictured on maps in your young learner's mind.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

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

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

This Rudolph craft will help your kid make a goofy and memorable ornament. Make a Rudolph craft this winter to bring some added merriment to your Christmas.

Celebrate Earth Day with a decorative tree made out of strictly reused and recycled materials.

Celebrate President's Day with your kindergartener by building a delicious presidential snack: a banana log cabin!

Play with shapes, like triangles and circles, to help your child review the different kinds and create a new picture!

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

Treasure hunts are tons of fun and they're a great way to introduce maps. Set the stage, and your kid's imagination will do the rest.

This fun craft will teach your child a little bit about the human skeletal system and can be adapted to teach the biology of many different living animals.

This butterfly costume comes together in under an hour and is perfect for your little trick-or-treater. Make this butterfly costume for Halloween or play time.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

This dalmatian costume is simple for expert crafters and novice dog lovers alike. Make a dalmatian costume with your child for Halloween or play time.

It's a rare kid who doesn't like a sandbox. Next time you're out digging, build in some earth science, too.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

Try this kooky, spooky arts and crafts activity with your preschooler: make gummy worm ice cubes!

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Instead of painting a picture of a whale, let your preschooler make their own whale toy using a paper bag and some recycled art supplies.

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!

Celebrate the colors of the American flag with this playful craft project!

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with your child and teach her about Mexican heritage with this fun arts and crafts activity.

Kids generally can't come up with the cash to buy the bling they dream of giving mom. With this project, they can make her jewelry themselves!