Early Childhood Activities : Page 27

Make necklaces, bracelets, belts, or garlands in this simple and fun activity that recycles old objects and let's your child make one-of-a-kind pieces of art!

Play this fun matching game with your kindergartener! It's a great way to practice math and number skills with playing cards.

Celebrate Dad with this decorative stepping stone for your garden!

Save some money this Halloween and work out fine motor skills by helping your child make his very own computer costume.

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

The 100th day of school is an important benchmark for kids in the lower elementary grades. Help your kid create a 100 days of school shirt to celebrate!

Get your kids to give you a hand in the kitchen--literally!--by making fun grilled cheese sandwiches decorated with their handprints.

Explore the changing seasons with your preschooler by helping her create a cork-stamped masterpiece.

Help your preschooler practice tying knots and bows by making a chain of chocolate kisses in this sweet Valentine's Day arts and crafts activity.

Get your preschooler ready for kindergarten by helping them learn numbers 1-10 with homemade snowflake counting cards in this arts and crafts activity.

Make a passport suitcase and keep track of all the places you've traveled together as a family. Here's how:

The objectives of this classic game are to toss a marker onto each square, to hop onto the single squares, and to skip the square where the marker landed.

Increase your preschooler's observation skills with this fun and colorful science experiment!

This engaging, fun, pattern resist painting is inspired by your little one's love of shapes.

Make a beautiful waxed Easter egg relief drawing for a lesson in this unique art technique.

This counting activity helps preschoolers learn about number sequences and adding.

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

Challenge your learner to a whole new method of storytelling, and improve their fine motor skills in the process.

This cookie dough handles like molding clay, but also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills.

In this activity, your child will consider the meaning of "culture" and what comprises their family's culture. They will draw pictures of aspects of their family's culture, then choose an aspect of it to explore further.

Watch your first grader marvel at how fun and simple it is to turn ordinary potatoes into custom shamrock stamps.

Give your kid the opportunity to experiment with color combinations, and how the tape is applied as they make special cards for friends and family.

Your child can create his own colorful leprechaun paper bag puppet for St. Patrick's Day in this kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

Get ready for a yummy taste test! Just pour the milk -- and make sure you have some chocolate chip cookies on hand.

Make a hand-decorated pillowcase to help ease the bedtime battle so that everyone can get a night of sweet dreams.

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

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Create a beautiful tissue paper lantern with your child to help brighten up a special occasion.

Put a spin on your child's old routine with this salad spinner painting project.

Try this art activitythat has your preschooler making chaotic paint designs with just a paintbrush pendulum!