Early Childhood Activities : Page 25

Create your very own adorable reindeer to keep you company throughout the holiday season.

Lacing is a great way to practice hand-eye coordination, which helps with writing. Turn it into a fun preschool art project, by stringing up some ABCs!

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

Looking for a healthy alternative for your preschoolerâs next birthday bonanza? Try out this surprisingly nutritious and wonderfully delicious dessert pizza!

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

Looking for a teacher gift? Here's a way for your preschooler to show off her growing writing skills and create a cute picture frame to show her thanks, too!

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.

Design a set of uppercase and lowercase alphabet cards, then use them to play memory and phonics games!

Improve your preschooler's knowledge of the alphabet by playing games with your own homemade wooden letters!

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.

Use the activity below to help your child create bath salts as she observes how a solid changes when placed into a liquid.

In this arts and crafts activity, work with your preschooler to transform a cardboard box into a puppet theater and put on your own puppet drama.

Be the mane attraction by creating a lion out of leaves! This wild craft keeps kids engaged and makes for fabulous art.

Pine cone decorations are fun and festive for the Christmas season. Make pine cone decorations with your child to celebrate the beauty of winter.

Make your own volleyball net! This beach ball game is a great activity for kids of all ages to develop coordination and teamwork.

Use common kitchen tools to create an entirely uncommon work of art!

Here is a guide to making a felt busy book that's perfect for focusing on specific learning areas with your child.

This fun math game will help develop your child's counting skills and number recognition skills.

These homemade thumbprint cards are as personalized as it gets, and your child will love using his prints to make holiday magic!

Honor dad's fatherly achievements with a handmade plaque for a job well done!

Make an adorable nut buddy by crafting nature people out of nuts in shells! Buddies will take on their own personalities depending on the materials you use.

Engage your preschool children's senses by discovering nature and geography on a walk through the neighborhood.

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

Using simple materials, children will create a movement card game that the whole family can play together.

Turn your home into a public art space by trying your hand at creating your own removable wall mural.

Have your little astronaut create her own crater-filled moon with this fun craft project that encourages learning about the final frontier.

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

How do you spell fun and learning? B-I-N-G-O! Children learn through play. And letter or number bingo is a great place to start.

This flannel board will give your child hands-on practice with math, but in a fun format, full of ladybugs.

This fun and educational Halloween craft is a fantastic way to celebrate the holiday while building your child's letter and phonics skills.