In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

This simple movement activity helps improve listening skills, as your child will be required to discriminate between sound and silence.

Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your child how to use chopsticks! She'll build her math and fine motor skills as she does this activity.

Practice early social studies skills and get your child excited about the new school year with this fun activity.

In this game, your child and his friends will need to use their observational skills as they try to figure out who's got the peanut!

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

Learn how to count in Spanish. Your child will practice her numbers and build her reading skills while learning a bit about Latino culture along the way.

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

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

Make this star-spangled greeting for the door to make all your guests feel welcome for the next patriotic holiday.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

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

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

Practice counting to 100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

This gluten free recipe for coconut rice is a tasty way to help any picky eater expand her culinary horizons. She'll get great measuring practice along the way!

In this activity, your child will create a fun lion mask and learn a little about Chinese culture too!

The pottery technique of coiling may be old, but it's probably new to your kid! Make coil pots with your preschooler throw in a little cultural lesson too!

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

Make sunomono, a simple Japanese cucumber vinegar salad, and kid-friendly chopsticks in this fun kindergarten activity.

This recipe provides a quicker, easier, and slightly healthier way to prepare this classic Louisiana Creole dish.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.