Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers: try finger painting with corn syrup and food coloring to make bright, colorful works of art.

This spider hat activity challenges your child to learn about spiders and improve fine motor skills. Make a spider hat with your child on Halloween or any time.

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

Teach your kindergartener a little about Mexican culture by giving him a festive, no-cook lesson in how to make "aguas frescas," or seasonal fruit drinks.

Help your kindergartener's handwriting, hand strength and coordination by making a "stress ball" from this homemade, nontoxic "silly squeezy putty."

Did you know magnifying glasses are magic? This hands-on activity has kids using magnifying glasses to engage with the world around them and look close to examine what they find.

This preschool activity uses paint chips to help your child learn about different shades of colors and how to find different colors in nature.

Playing doctor is not only fun, it's also a way to teach kids about the parts of the body and how they are spelled.

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

Help your kindergartener practice his shape recognition and develop his fine motor skills by making a scarecrow at home.

In this arts and crafts activity, let your kindergartener create life-sized body stamps using some paint and his own hands and feet.

Help your preschooler explore the effects of light and shadow, and make a pretty sun print at the same time!

Make some fairy tale felt board stories with your child the next time you're looking for a fun activity for a lazy afternoon.

Satisfy your kindergartener's fascination of different sounds with this easy science project, where they'll use their ears instead of their eyes to identify sounds!

Learn how to make a homemade ladybug costume, a quick and easy costume solution for kids of any age.

Craft your own Mardi Gras wreath to celebrate the holiday and help your kid build her fine motor skills while you're at it!

Bring out your child’s creative side with this fun Halloween-themed craft.

Give items that usually get tossed in the trash a second life with this green arts and crafts activity for kindergarteners. Make a milk carton train engine!

With this fun activity, you can help your preschooler make an cute shopping notepad to keep and use or give away as a gift. Here's how:

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

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

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Put your kid in charge of her own survey! She'll poll her relatives and friends, collect information, and then create a colorful chart to display her findings.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

Make a colorful rock mosaic that will help your child practice her patterns, shapes, and colors while making a beautiful work of art!

Make a peace dove to commemorate Black History Month and hang it in your home as a quiet reminder of the spirit of the movement.

Help your kindergarten scientist understand the concept of surface tension with this simple science experiment.

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

Introduce the idea of measuring weight to your preschooler or kindergartener by making a fun and easy-to-use bungee scale to weigh household objects.

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.