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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

Help your child build ice cream cones as she practices her counting skills

Playhouses can be expensive, and they take up so much space. Why not make your own collapsible playhouse instead?

Let your child explore the concept of sculpture with marshmallows and pretzels to form an edible sculpture!

Help your child will learn about shapes and patterns by creating her own masterpiece mosaic out of dried beans.

Rainy day? Stuck inside? Here's an arts and crafts pasta project to enjoy with your kindergartener that helps her with math patterns too.

Try this kindergarten arts and crafts activity and sneak in a little extra nutrition this holiday season: make a mashed potato snowman sculpture!

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.