This is a quick, easy science fair project that conveys the idea of density to preschool and early elementary children.

Here's Twist 'N Turn: let your preschooler or pre-kindergartener be outside and active while learning about shapes, colors, directions, and word recognition.

Master reading numbers aloud with your first grader in this math card game.

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

Does your child love pretend and need practice with letters and the sounds they make? Get cooking! This activity is fun and builds key reading skills, too.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation 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.

Create an American flag pinwheel in this Fourth of July craft activity!

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

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!

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

When your child is itching for a game, consider ditching Hide and Seek in favor of Shape and Seek. Here's how it works:

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

There's nothing like a treasure hunt to get kids excited about math and sorting.

Practice counting, sequencing, and pattern recognition with your young learner in this fun math card game!

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

Create a giant octopus from cardboard that holds onto a sea of creatures from its tentacles!

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

The goal of this fun science fair project idea is to microwave candy and investigate: do some colors of M&Ms melt faster than others?

Help your first grader gain new reading skills in this fun, homemade phonics game that the whole family can enjoy!

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

This activity is a great way to practice sorting, counting, matching, and other early math skills--- on the fly.

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!

Here's a Halloween, math activity: have your preschooler or pre-kindergartener carve shapes into a Jack-O-Lantern face and boost her shape recognition skills.