Early Childhood Activities : Page 3

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Understanding emotions can be a helpful tool for self-regulation. In this social emotional learning activity, your child will practice identifying different emotions and explore how they connect with various gestures and facial expressions.

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Teach your child how to create lots and lots of line designs by wrapping string around wooden blocks, and using them to create line-filled prints.

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Have your preschooler lend a hand when it comes to the Easter decorations by making this adorable popcorn lamb.

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

Try this goofy, first grade phonics craft that focuses on the letter "F" as in "Frog" and helps build crucial reading and spelling skills in your child.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

This Easter, try putting on a guided family scavenger hunt to help your kindergartener track down the Easter eggs.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

Make a rainbow chain for St. Patrick's day to introduce your child to Roy G. Biv.

Decorate eggs for Easter without the mess by making an Easter egg collage instead in this preschool arts and crafts activity.

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

Let your child experience the fun of collage art while jumping into a little bee science with this bee-utiful busy bee craft.

Can't make it to the beach? Bring the science of ocean waves home with this fun earth science-related craft.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Here's a simple science activity that will help your child better understand how wells bring us water.

Make frog feet sponge prints with your child for a fun and educational crafts activity.

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

Turn wait time in the doctor's office or travel time in the car into fun time with your own version of I Spy.

Your child will enjoy getting math practice as they use bugs in addition and subtraction problems.