Here's an arts and crafts activity to help your preschooler or kindergartener create his own set of building blocks to create her dream house and buildings.

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!

In this design challenge, your child will use building bricks to create a funny face. The activity instructions include question prompts thta can help guide your child through the creative process, and promote their problem-solving skills.

Improve your kindergartener's vocabulary with this fun, quick, and simple improvisation activity! He'll love acting while practicing directionality words.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

This activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

Try this fun and interactive collage activity with your preschooler to teach her the "building blocks" of math and architecture.

Celebrate President's Day with your kindergartener by building a delicious presidential snack: a banana log cabin!

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

This imaginative shape activity will introduce your kindergartener to the world of shape and color while building basic math skills.

Building a rocket ship is a great way for kids to learn about measuring and construction. It'll fuel their creative side too!

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

Use fun and fuzzy pipe cleaners to help your child learn how to form important letters that make up the words that are the building blocks of phonics.

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.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

This fun and educational Halloween craft is a fantastic way to celebrate the holiday while building your child's letter and phonics skills.

While building his own croquet set, your kindergartener will use both his math an fine motor skills and as he plays he'll improve his hand-eye coordination.

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

Craft a patriotic placemat from red, white, and blue construction paper in this festive craft project!

Let your preschooler play with her food by making snack logs out of celery, peanut butter and corn flakes.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

Want to give craft time a little pop and sizzle? Try this colorful painting craft that uses one of our favorite toys--a Koosh ball!

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!

This simple and creative arts and crafts activity is great for preschoolers or kindergarteners and uses recycled magazines or newspapers.

For most kids the fun is in the process, and making a dollhouse out of cardboard boxes is as creative as it gets! Here's how to make your own dollhouse.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

Here's a tasty way to give your child some counting practice.

Grab some dice and play this take on tic-tac-toe. Itâs easy to set up and your child will have a blast.