Early Childhood Activities : Page 22

Help your kindergarten scientist discover relative size, density, and buoyancy with this fun, pumpkin science project!

If your preschooler needs counting practice, try this pared-down game. Kids count clips in each cup and find the playing card to match.

In this arts and crafts activity, let your kindergartener create life-sized body stamps using some paint and his own hands and feet.

Make unique holiday ornaments with this sticky, stringy art project.

Make a First Day of School Mobile to help commemorate the big step from preschool to kindergarten and ease those first day jitters!

This simple and seasonal kid activity turns glue and food coloring into beautiful autumn leaves that will last forever.

Here's a color matching game that is perfect for winter! Your child will race against the clock to assemble the name of a color with its matching parts.

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

This guessing game is a hoot. And it helps teach kids to categorize a set of objects-- a key skill for preschool.

Homemade candy canes are a sweet gift for your friends and family. Make homemade candy canes with your child this Christmas.

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

Your preschooler wonât need a passport to go on this nature safari! All you need are paper, crayons and a nature trail or your back yard.

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

Learn how to make paper Christmas trees with this simple craft. See how to make paper Christmas trees and celebrate the holiday season.

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.

Help your kindergartener practice counting from one to ten with this fun outdoor activity. Make a "My Backyard Counting Book" to review counting to ten.

Help your child make an attractive frozen holiday ornament to hang outside during winter months.

This children's menorah is a fun craft that lets your child celebrate Hanukkah while learning their ABCs. Make this children's menorah for the Festival of Lights.

A fingerprint heart is a lovely craft for little hands to make on Valentine's Day. Create a glittering fingerprint heart with your child this Valentine's Day.

Make this star-spangled greeting for the door to make all your guests feel welcome for the next patriotic holiday.

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.

Help your little one figure out the differences between the worlds of air, land and water, a huge step in understanding how our environment works.

Preschoolers are fascinated by how colors can be mixed to form new ones. This activity combines color mixing with the concept of melting for extra science fun.

Help your kindergartener practice letter strokes while experimenting with the painting style of the great artist Mondrian.

Every day will be a new experience as you explore and learn about the different colors.

How can you tell the difference between a spider and an insect? Your child will find out as he makes a tray of yummy creepy crawly snacks.

Help your ambitious kindergartener imagine her bright future by creating a self-portrait collage of jobs she's interested in.

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.

Create clear sound shakers so your preschooler can observe and compare the different sounds that objects make!