Early Childhood Activities : Page 45

Help your preschooler or preschooler with shape recognition, math, and matching by creating your own personal shapes cards, good for home or car.

Help your preschooler make an alternative to carrying messy sidewalk chalk in hand: a helpful, handmade sidewalk chalk caddy.

Learners will boost their visual recognition skills and become more familiar with different colors as they pair up craft sticks with the same patterns.

Problem-solving skills can be practiced and strengthened over time with puzzles such as Tangrams! In this activity, your child will discuss problem-solving strategies and practice using these strategies with Tangram puzzles.

Create colorful paintings using the turntable on an old record player, and help your child experiment with color and movement!

Children learn about the benefits of mindfulness, teach someone else what they've learned, and create a sand timer to use during mindfulness practice.

When it comes to snack time, you can't have much more fun than a treat in a yummy edible bowl. Check out our quick and easy cookie cup recipe.

Assist your kindergartener in constructing his own shy little magic turtle out of just a plastic cup, tube sock, and wooden dowel.

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

Let your preschooler develop her fine motor skills in this cooking activity that has her creating hamburger cookies, a great snack for any party or BBQ.

Play with, explore, and describe everyday objects with your preschooler to get her ready to learn basic math skills and concepts.

Looking for a healthy alternative for your preschoolerâs next birthday bonanza? Try out this surprisingly nutritious and wonderfully delicious dessert pizza!

Your child may have fallen in love with certain brand-name trains, but it's just as much fun to make your own - and a whole lot cheaper. Here's how.

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Help your child develop his counting and language skills with this fun activity. He'll be a number hero for a day and learn about safety while he's at it.

What better dessert to serve on April Foolâs Day than cookie fish sticks? Make this fish stick meal for an unforgettable reaction.

Teach your preschooler some physics that she can relate to with this fun and simple activity!

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.

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

Use your cookie cutters with jello to have the kids create a story with the shapes they choose.

Use a chunk of Styrofoam and some golf tees to make a safe and quiet tool bench for the kids.

In this activity, children will write letters to their future selves and draw encouraging pictures. These letters will be given to back to them at a future time when they are in need of some encouragement and kind reminders.

In this activity, children create rising foam as they reflect on the many ways they have grown over the past months and learn how a "beginner's mind" is helpful.

Help your kindergartener create his own shiny medal that celebrates his amazing and award-worthy accomplishments.

Got an empty bottle sitting around collecting dust? Put it to good use by turning it into a homemade night light for your kids.

Teach your child the colors of the rainbow while creating an impressive treat that will brighten up the whole kitchen.

Fix a yummy fruit and chocolate quesadilla. It'll give your kid a chance to boost his fine motor skills while making a snack the whole family will enjoy.

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

In this lesson, your child will reflect on, draw, and collect things that make them feel happy and peaceful.