Early Childhood Activities : Page 6

Make a beautiful waxed Easter egg relief drawing for a lesson in this unique art technique.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

It's easy and fun to make puzzles, and your child can pick any design.

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

Music instruments can be expensive. Sidestep steep prices with this art project that uses recycled materials to create a melodious music maker!

Using simple materials, children will create a movement card game that the whole family can play together.

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

Make your own dreidel from modeling clay with this Hannukah craft activity!

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.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Good for indoor and outdoor play, this patriotic tossing game uses lightweight pieces that can be found in almost any household.

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

This imaginative art activity will help your child to better understand symmetry and explore color and shape.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

It can feel good to hit something when you're mad. The more your child pounds, squeezes, and mashes this dough, the better these play dough cookies will taste!

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

This year, welcome everyone's favorite Easter mascot by helping your kindergartener create her own unique set of rabbit ears!

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

In this fun activity, kids learn how to make their own bravery badges so they can be brave anytime they want.

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

Craft a glamorous crown that your preschooler can wear when he demonstrates good behavior!