Early Childhood Activities : Page 12

This fun and easy activity encourages the skill of overlapping objects, while your child gets to draw his own farm and color in clip art farm animals!

This year, help your child celebrate Easter by upcycling an old light bulb and make a cute little chicken face.

Halloween is approaching, so why not create some ghost flash cards that will help your child learn their numbers the spooky way?

Help your child stay physically and mentally active with this group aerobic fitness game that's good for the heart and mind alike.

Give your preschooler the opportunity to work on color recognition and fine motor skills while creating a beautiful tie-dyed piece of art!

Your preschooler can learn how to siphon water with just two bottles and a plastic tube in this fun, educational science activity.

It's easy to plant your own in-home container garden! This planter contains pizza-themed herbs and is a perfect early gardening activity for kindergarteners.

Forget expensive store bought cards, this handmade card truly delivers--and it helps your preschooler with letter recognition.

Help your child make a picture of a four-leaf clover this St. Patrick's Day. It's thought that whoever finds a four-leaf clover will enjoy good luck!

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.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

Check out this twist on a peanut butter and banana sandwich. The banana replaces the bread to make the perfect fun and nutritious after-school snack.

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

Your child can help eliminate stress for himself or a loved one by creating a colorful, homemade stress ball.

Can you fool your eyes and your brain with an optical illusion? The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate various kinds of optical illusions.

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.

Ensuring that what we say is truthful, helpful, inspiring, necessary, and kind takes practice! In this social emotional learning activity, your child will set a goal for themselves to THINK before they speak.

In this easy and fun animal craft, make a cute pig nose using recycled egg cartons!

Practice counting to five with your child while making this adorably "scary" ghost to celebrate Halloween.

Encourage your child to eat nutritiously by having them build this delicious summer fruit cone!

Has your preschooler ever wanted to be a pirate? This fun activity will put her healthy imagination into action!

Forget markers or crayons. For a really unusual art project, close the art supply cabinet, and crack open the pantry! Use rice to make pictures.

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

Candy cane ornaments bring some cheer to your Christmas tree. Make a batch of candy cane ornaments with your child to practice patterning and fine motor skills.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

Here's a delightful kindergarten project that will boost your child's reading and writing skills--and make for a happy time on a rainy day, too.

Your preschooler will strengthen his fine motor skills by cutting, painting, and drawing as he creates a crafty caterpillar out of an egg carton.

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.