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

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:

Have your child create her own version of an ancient Egyptian jewelry cuff similar to one that a goddess might have worn with this fun recycled craft.

This scavenger hunt game is simple, but it's fun, and it will arm your children with the directional vocabulary they should master in time for kindergarten.

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

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.

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

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

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!

Add a little island flavor to your next lazy afternoon with a Hawaiian arts and craft project!

There's no need to hunt down a cactus for this rainstick craft. In fact, you can recycle items you probably already have on hand.

Kick off the spookiest time of the year with an art project inspired by the ancient Egyptian process of mummification.

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

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

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.

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

Celebrate Irish history and culture this St. Patrick's Day by making a miniature version of the Blarney Stone!

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!

Want to help your child learn more about his community while boosting creativity? Set up a post office play station right in your very own 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.

Let your preschooler feel like a real chef by helping him create his very own chef's hat!

The Egg in a Basket, a traditional British breakfast component, is a simple snack that kids and parents can cook together!

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

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

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

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.

Expand your child's geographic awareness with these fun and easy map lessons.

Maracas are most commonly found in music around the world. Introduce your child to percussion and rhythm with this easy-to-make instrument.

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