Early Childhood Activities : Page 26

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

In this leap frog activity, your child will use her muscles to jump over her friends and onto lily pads as she practices number recognition.

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

When itâs too warm to ice skate or too cold to roller skate or you simply want an anytime, indoor activity, set up a wax paper skating rink.

Celebrate Read Across America with a Dr. Seuss-themed craft: make a paper plate elephant ears costume modeled after Horton from Horton Hears a Who!

Drive away rainy day blues by making a paper tropical fish in bright colors, jazzed up with multi-colored confetti.

Here's a preschool activity to help your child get a head start on his day: make car-shaped toast slathered with his favorite topping.

Etch designs into discs of plaster of Paris using a traditional whaler technique to create a beautiful artisan necklace.

While you are waiting for the real stuff, this activity lets your child play in pretend "snow" while practicing reading skills and learning about magnets.

Reuse the tops of tissue boxes as photo frames for treasured family photos in this fun craft activity.

All your preschooler needs to create a personalized Halloween memento is their two hands and some black paint.

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

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

In this science fair project, young children observe, record, and create collections of shapes in their world and increase their powers of observation.

Practice counting with this winter kindergarten art project! As your child sculpts a clay igloo, he will work on math and dexterity and learn about snow.

These colorful apple snacks make colorful mouths, and the almonds add a boost of protein and healthy fats for growing bodies.

Does your child have trouble holding a pencil? Is writing an excruciating task? The key is to build up those hand muscles! This water relay race can help.

Teach your child about jesters as she makes her very own jester hat.

Here's a fun activity to get your kindergarten child to listen to beginning alphabet sounds and match them with their letter symbols.

Your preschooler is familiar with the colors in their crayon box, but can they find these colors in the world? Take them on a scavenger hunt to find out!

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

Teach your preschooler some physics that she can relate to with this fun and simple activity!

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

In this science fair project, students learn how pressure can make the minerals in a rock line up in the same direction and form bands and foliation.

Put those fall leaves to use with this fun art activity. Kids paint and print leaves, to make a beautiful tablecloth, perfect for your next fall celebration.

Create colorful paintings using the turntable on an old record player, and help your child experiment with color and movement!

These spaghetti ornaments take seconds to make and are a great addition to a tree, gift or window.

In this activity, your child fills jars with water to learn about acoustics, and practices mixing colors to form a rainbow of colors and sounds.

Help your kindergartener make and play a "Hop On Pop"-inspired card game--a fun way to learn word families!

While you whip up mashed potatoes for your next dinner party, your first grader and friends can stay occupied by crafting their own silly spud characters.