Early Childhood Activities : Page 4

Here's Twist 'N Turn: let your preschooler or pre-kindergartener be outside and active while learning about shapes, colors, directions, and word recognition.

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

In this science fair project, young children will become aware of and have the opportunity to experience the four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

Create this quick and easy craft with your child, and then let their imagination float free as they write about it!

Here's a simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.

Delight your child by helping them to construct a boat that can hold two seaworthy toy figures in this engaging project made from upcycled water bottles.

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

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

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

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Kids are sure to be entranced by the magic of the ocean when they create their very own ocean in a bottle.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Use old coffee cans and socks to make a beanbag toss game for kids in preschool and kindergarten. This activity is great for math and coordination.

Preschoolers need to practice hopping, skipping, and other "gross motor" skills. Why not make it fun by challenging them to move like their favorite animals?

Reinforce your child’s foundational math skills while creating small works of seasonal art with this creative Halloween rock painting activity!

This simple activity is not only fun, it's also a useful way to organize children's closets — and offer kids some autonomy to boot.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

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

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

Boost your preschooler's math and verbal skills by having her participate in simple, fun activities that teach her how to sort, count, and categorize objects.

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.

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

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

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.

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

This activity spotlights everyone's favorite reindeer, Rudolph, and preserves your child's handprints in his "antlers".

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

When your child is itching for a game, consider ditching Hide and Seek in favor of Shape and Seek. Here's how it works:

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

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