Early Childhood Activities : Page 7

Here's a Halloween arts and crafts activity for your preschooler, pre-kindergartener, or kindergartener: make bat wings of poster board and ribbon.

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

Make frog feet sponge prints with your child for a fun and educational crafts activity.

Here's a preschool color collage activity to help your child work on their sorting skills, and create a beautiful addition to the refrigerator gallery.

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

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

Preschoolers can ply their creativity making recycled egg carton masks in this clever eco-friendly arts and crafts activity.

Jump into pretend play this Easter with a classic preschool arts and crafts activity: make a bunny paper bag puppet!

Encourage your child to help make dinner special this holiday season! If your child is loves to help in the kitchen, this is a great activity. They will build mini-penguins to enjoy while waiting for dinner!

Play this hidden number game with your preschooler that will give her a leg up in learning numbers.

Sweets are for the sweet, but this pretty frame will last longer than a box of chocolates.

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

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

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

Kids love to hear about themselves. And reading about themselves is even better! This personal yearbook will let them record all their important facts.

Design a fruit-inspired artwork using paints, paper plates, and real watermelon seeds in this seasonal craft project!

Does a paper clip float? Does a sponge sink? Let your child find out! This experiment is simple science fun.

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

Your little one can welcome the reindeer with an adorable reindeer portrait all while learning the difference between small, medium and large.

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations

In this creative arts and crafts activity, children will design and create their very own alphabet tree!

Use marbles and paint to explore the wild world of shapes and color...and build writing strength, too.

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Celebrate Groundhog Day with this cute groundhog pop-up toy. All you need is construction paper, a craft stick, and a paper cup to get started.

Act out the Three Billy Goats Gruff with this adorable paper plate mask.

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

Even your first grader can get involved in the lighting of the Kwanzaa Kinara with this clever flameless Kinara project!