Early Childhood Activities : Page 42

Design a set of uppercase and lowercase alphabet cards, then use them to play memory and phonics games!

Here's a fun arts and crafts activity for your preschooler or pre-kindergartener: make a print relief out of cardboard.

Your child will be delighted to learn about and gaze upon his favorite constellations with this set of stellar homemade placemats!

Here's an arts and crafts activity for your preschool or pre-kindergarten child: make a tubescope out of a cardboard tube and colored and wax paper!

In this activity, your child will learn how to spruce up her bike with an original license plate!

Play the fridge magnet name game with your preschooler to help prepare her for kindergarten reading and writing.

Share some old school fun with your preschooler with stilts you can make from items found in your recycling!

Introduce your kid to abstract art with this painting activity. It's the perfect way to engage a kinesthetic learner and spark an interest in art history!

Here's a Halloween, math activity: have your preschooler or pre-kindergartener carve shapes into a Jack-O-Lantern face and boost her shape recognition skills.

Rhymes are all around us! Get your kid in on this game of simple rhyming words. She'll match up cards with rhyming words and pictures on them.

This versatile clay-like material hardens if left out and can be used for building sand castles, forts, and even school projects.

The Egg in a Basket, a traditional British breakfast component, is a simple snack that kids and parents can cook together!

Let your child explore the concept of sculpture with marshmallows and pretzels to form an edible sculpture!

Do this fun activity that uses stickers to help your kindergartener with counting, basic addition, and one-to-one correspondence.

Help your child reinforce the order of the alphabet with this hands-on activity using some everyday materials. It's a fun way to put a spin on a timeless skill.

Serve up this pretend play activity to your preschooler to give her counting skills a healthy boost.

Learn about construction while making a fun new toy, the Mini-Marshmallow Popper.

Let your curious kindergartener experiment with this tasty combo as you sneak a little compare and contrasting practice into the mix

Teach your child about using pumps to move water in this simple and educational preschool science activity!

Enjoy making these no bake cookies with the kids and teach them important lessons in early math skills.

Combine fun sensory play with early number awareness in a squishy sun catcher project. It's a fun way for your kid to learn about numbers.

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

Even chocolate can make an appearance in kindergarten math. These truffles are truly easy to make and add a bit of decadence to math practice!

Take a pretty parfait glass and help your preschooler create a simple A-B-A-B pattern as she layers strawberries and yogurt.

Plastic pipes and pipe connectors make a quick and fun activity for preschoolers. Try some of our pipe challenges!

In this activity, children learn about artistic portraiture by creating a life-sized painting of their favorite creature.

Here's a fun math game you can use to practice counting, addition or subtraction with your child.

With this activity, your child can learn about how molecules join together and make a pretty decoration to hang around the house. Here's how:

Discover the wonders of simple clay by pressing flowers into a modeling medium!

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.