Early Childhood Activities : Page 4

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Make a family tree with your child to teach him about his personal history. Make a family tree with this tutorial, and teach your kid about his family history.

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

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

This project commemorates the milestone of completing the first 100 days of school, while giving your child a manipulative to practice counting to 100.

Celebrate Earth Day with a decorative tree made out of strictly reused and recycled materials.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

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!

Celebrate the coming of Spring and Earth Day with this 3-D art project that makes use of recycled materials.

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

A great way to cultivate awareness, focus and attention in the present is through movement. Mindful movement can also decrease stress and anxiety and increase calm.

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

Do you need to help your students chill out? This activity will help your students learn how to breathe deeply, self-soothe, and calm themselves down.

All you need is chalk and pavement to set up this silly, fun, and practical game that reinforces important vocabulary.

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Lots of kids wonder what it would be like to be a police officer. Celebrate the people who help keep our communities safe with this fun craft.

Building a rocket ship is a great way for kids to learn about measuring and construction. It'll fuel their creative side too!

Here is a guide to making a felt busy book that's perfect for focusing on specific learning areas with your child.

This slightly messy, but tons-of-fun tactile activity will cement the idea of the land and water as pictured on maps in your young learner's mind.

How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

Your child will have a blast developing their fine motor skills and working on shape recognition with this bright and cheery crab decoration.

Explore emotions through songs and crafts in this social emotional learning activity. In this activity, your child will play an emotions guessing game and create a kaleidoscope of emotions.

Try this kooky, spooky arts and crafts activity with your preschooler: make gummy worm ice cubes!

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!

Try this new twist to the traditional memory game to help your learner match number symbols to the correct quantity while sharpening their memory skills!