Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

Challenge your preschooler to a game of shape match-up--an entertaining way to boost her observational ability.

Plan ahead for summer, by constructing a holiday calendar with your child. A great way to teach kids about time!

Create a counting book, in order from 1-30, to help your child figure out a variety of ways of recognizing and representing numbers.

Play this game to help froggie hop home...and teach the number line to your kindergartener while you're at it!

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

This spider hat activity challenges your child to learn about spiders and improve fine motor skills. Make a spider hat with your child on Halloween or any time.

Help your child stay physically and mentally active with this group aerobic fitness game that's good for the heart and mind alike.

Does the idea of taking your child to an art museum sound daunting? Create your own museum and give your child some practice with shapes!

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

You don't need to spend big bucks to buy a pre-boxed version of a matching game at the store. You can make your own easily. Here's how:

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.

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

Your preschooler will not realize she's practicing her counting skills while playing with this interactive cereal abacus!

Your child will learn more about coins and their denominations as he's asked to identify similar coins.

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

Counting with one-to-one correspondence is an important kindergarten math skill. This simple activity turns it into a play-anywhere game.

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

Help your little builder move up in the world with this recycled cardboard castle that's just the right size for a young king and his loyal stuffed subjects.

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.