Early Childhood Activities : Page 21

Make ghost decorations for Halloween! They're made out of paper towels and are a cinch to create!

Rainy day? Stuck inside? Here's an arts and crafts pasta project to enjoy with your kindergartener that helps her with math patterns too.

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a few riotous rounds of Hot Potato--played with a real potato!

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.

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

Kids have permission to get messy (just a little bit!) as they create a decorative candy cane mosaic from red and white handprints.

Checkerboard play challenges students to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking.

Pay tribute to the color green this St. Patrick's Day by creating a tactile sensory collage filled with green things in this kindergarten art activity.

There's nothing like a treasure hunt to get kids excited about math and sorting.

Develop your kindergartener's fine motor skills while tracing shadows on a sunny day with this fun kindergarten activity.

Help your kid get in touch with their wild side with this Big Bad Wolf mask! Bring this fairy tale villain to life with simple crafting supplies.

Make your own play dough at home with a fruity scent using this easy activity!

In this activity, your child will be given images that portray different perspectives or emotions. Your child will practice empathy by coloring and drawing what each person may have been thinking or feeling.

At your next party, play this amped-up version of hot potato that comes with a prize!

On a sunny day, make some great art and start a conversation about states of matter in the process with this chalk paint project.

Our heart card is a little piece of modern art that makes a great Valentine's Day gift for a creative friend. Make a heart card using paper, paint, and marbles.

Familiarize your preschooler with the concept of numbers one through five and counting with this hands-on activity.

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Challenge your kindergartener to finding out if a coin toss is really fair by conducting this coin toss experiment.

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

Make an edible bracelet from Froot Loops and a shoelace! This Block Institute art activity will engage your special needs or mainstream child at snacktime.

Hone fine motor skills by having your kid create a jack-o'-lantern fiber arts project. They'll lace sheets of paper together to create a 3-D stuffed pumpkin.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

This is an easy counting game for preschoolers and toddlers. Great for car trips!

During Chinese New Year festivities, you see lanterns everywhere. Your child can make her very own red and gold lanterns to display at home.

Chocolate rice krispie treats get a fun spin in our recipe. Make chocolate rice krispie treats shaped like chocolate kisses for a special Valentine's Day treat.

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

In this project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables