Celebrate your child's first day of kindergarten with this arts and crafts activity: make a SchultÃte, a cardboard cone filled with candy and other goodies!

The Kindergarten Personal Record Book makes measurement fun & active! Kids record their vital statistics from head to toe using unusual tools like paper clips.

This play-activity causes young children to focus on and become more aware of their sense of hearing and the power of their ears.

Practice early social studies skills and get your child excited about the new school year with this fun activity.

Learn how to count in Spanish. Your child will practice her numbers and build her reading skills while learning a bit about Latino culture along the way.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Celebrate the 100th day of school by creating a geometric, math-inspired mural in the style of Henri Matisse in this creative kindergarten grade art activity.

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Kids in preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school will love turning flower pots into homemade musical instruments in this fun and simple activity.

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.

Sorting objects by size, color, shape, or function is an important concept in kindergarten math, and it's the perfect excuse for a little housekeeping!

Use paper and paste to create a colorful collage of shapes that turns into a school bus right before your eyes.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Put old, worn-out picture books to work by constructing a book birdhouse, perfect for welcoming spring.

Build a peek-a-boo book and give your child a fun vocabulary and reading boost, on the fly!

These handmade Christmas treat cups are perfect for house parties, school celebrations, and holiday bake sales.

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

Help your preschooler craft her very own announcement to celebrate the special transition to "big kids" school!

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

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

This versatile clay-like material hardens if left out and can be used for building sand castles, forts, and even school projects.

Share some old school fun with your preschooler with stilts you can make from items found in your recycling!

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

Summer is a great time to work on pre-kindergarten skills that will serve your child well in her first year at school, while having some fun in the sun!

Celebrate your little one's move to big kid school by throwing a very special graduation party complete with friends, crafts, and lots of energetic fun.

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.