Early Childhood Activities : Page 28

Help your child practice his writing skills, while ensuring he'll get some mail to call his own, by making Family Mailboxes, a fun arts and crafts project.

Your little preschool elf will develop some important fine motor skills while creating an entertaining game: Pin the Star on the Christmas Tree!

Encourage your future voter and current patriot to get in on election fever by making his very own voting button.

Ever wonder where paint comes from? This recipe works well with preschoolers because of its consistency and its natural nontoxicity.

Try this simple preschool arts and crafts activity: make a plaster of Paris sculpture in a plastic sandwich bag!

Try this fun preschool arts and crafts activity: make art by grating colored chalk over a sheet of buttermilk-painted paper. Watch as it sparkles!

This activity turns your kid into the family weatherman. Plus, it teaches him to collect data and begin to understand graphing.

Your child can get out the acrylic paints and create a colorful paperweight perfect for dad this Father's Day!

Snowman soup is an extra special kind of hot chocolate. Make some snowman soup with your child, and let him practice measuring and mixing this holiday season.

Let your preschooler play with her food by making snack logs out of celery, peanut butter and corn flakes.

Your preschooler can learn about texture by recycling old containers and lids.

Jazz up your holiday greetings with a textured and artsy paper poinsettia!

This flexible activity for preschoolers features jellybeans, counting, coloring, and the five senses.

Do this fun art project to brighten up your home with an easy-to-make stained glass window drawing!

Boost your child's early literacy skills and create alphabet tiles she can play and practice with - great reinforcement for ABC's, phonics and writing!

A thankful turkey helps your child think about on the things that he's thankful for. Make this turkey craft with your child for Thanksgiving.

Encourage your child's creativity by giving him a new kind of paintbrush -- a feather!

This activity will help your child build his early math skills by practicing shape recognition.

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Help your child hunt and capture bugs to observe to practice important science skills and satisfy her curiosity simultaneously!

Here's a delicious activity that lets your preschooler or pre-kindergartener prepare her own fun and healthy snack using cookie cutters.

For most kids the fun is in the process, and making a dollhouse out of cardboard boxes is as creative as it gets! Here's how to make your own dollhouse.

Kids of all ages will delight in making these jumbo "cupcake" crayons from all of the broken crayon stubs that seem to pile up around the house.

Instead of filling your preschooler's tummy with sugary sweets this season, let her take a bite out of this healthy and delicious candy cane alternative.

Express the love that you share with your child this Valentine's Day by creating unique "me and you" portraits together!

If your child isn't wild about tea, help her repurpose an old teacup and saucer as a quirky decorative planter.

Nothing is more wonderfully rich than a chocolate truffle. Help your child make a batch shaped like eggs to share with family and friends this Easter.

Help keep your child's baby teeth safe with this cute tooth-shaped felt pillow that comes with a little pouch that's just the right size for a lost tooth.

Your preschooler will not realize she's practicing her counting skills while playing with this interactive cereal abacus!