Early Childhood Activities : Page 42

This activity will help your child develop her fine motor skills and build spatial awareness,and it's a great way to jazz up snack time!

Celebrate your child's first day of kindergarten with this arts and crafts activity: make a SchultÃte, a cardboard cone filled with candy and other goodies!

This unique twist on bingo is a great outside game that gives kids spelling and color practice, and it's lots of fun, too!

Play this fun math numbers game with your kindergartener! Practice following instructions as you roll the dice and count.

In this science fair project, young children observe, record, and create collections of shapes in their world and increase their powers of observation.

Chocolate rice krispie treats get a fun spin in our recipe. Make chocolate rice krispie treats shaped like chocolate kisses for a special Valentine's Day treat.

Invite your kindergartener or first grader to make giant, soft building blocks. He'll have a blast constructing, throwing, stacking, and even falling on them!

This handprint angel adds some sparkle to Christmas. Watch as your child's handprints turn into beautiful angel wings.

Caring for ourselves and others can build connections and a greater sense of love. In this activity, your child will discuss what it means to be caring and will demonstrate care through drawing and by performing two caring and kind deeds.

Patterns are everywhere. This activity allows your child to practice inventing their own patterns while creating a portrait of a pet.

With so many high fat snacks on the market, eating healthy can be tricky. Help your child make a low fat snack with little more than a can of chick peas!

Want to turn snack time into fun-time? Help him turn ordinary rice cakes into creatures that are silly, creepy, or just plain cute!

Let your preschooler create something cute while making something delicious to eat: create bread sculptures, or shapes of bread dough!

Engage your preschool children's senses by discovering nature and geography on a walk through the neighborhood.

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

Put together a pine forest to help you count down the days until Christmas with your little one.

Make ghost decorations for Halloween! They're made out of paper towels and are a cinch to create!

Bring the classic game of "Red Rover" up to date with color and shape recognition skills for your child.

Like "Mother, May I?", this following directions tag game focuses on gross motor skills, but to the theme Itsy Bitsy Spider. Fun indoors or outside!

Introduce your kindergartener to some art history by showing him how to create an everyday object print, Andy Warhol-style.

In this preschool counting game, kids learn to count with their fingers, but without their eyes!

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

Create cake pops in shaped like eyeballs in this extra sweet, gross-out Halloween baking activity!

Help your child make sense of our colorful world with this easy-to-make color challenge!

This homemade alphabet game will keep your kindergartener on his toes and help him practice letter, numbers, and taking turns. The whole family can participate!

Add a little patriotic flair to your snack table with this 4th of July nachos recipe that's red, white and blue...and healthy to boot!

Make homemade glitter to add glamor and glitz to art projects galore.

Hold a magnet marathon! Explore the power of magnets with your kindergartener in this entertaining and simple science game.

Help your kindergartner make a delightful and delicious lunch for the whole family.

This unexpected art project is sure to result in a Picasso-esque jumble of imagination that will teach your kid about shapes, colors, and abstract form!