Preschool Activities : Page 4

A homemade coat of arms is a great way to get your child thinking about your family's values, and it makes a fun addition to the costume box as well!

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

Enjoy the beach all year long with this fun activity that uses sand, seashells, and a shoebox to create a mini beach right in your house!

In this variation on musical chairs, no one gets kicked "out" of the game -- instead, they get to tell other kids what to do!

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.

Preschoolers can ply their creativity making recycled egg carton masks in this clever eco-friendly arts and crafts activity.

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

Sponges are easy to handle and fun to play with, and your child will love putting these simple, three-piece puzzles together.

In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how:

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

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press their very own masterpieces.

This Valentine's Day, learn a little more about the organ that keeps everything in your body going--the heart!

Make frog feet sponge prints with your child for a fun and educational crafts activity.

Jump into pretend play this Easter with a classic preschool arts and crafts activity: make a bunny paper bag puppet!

This homemade snow globe is fun for kids who are excited about the arrival of winter. Kids can complete this snow globe craft quickly and easily.

This sunshiny art project is perfect for a rainy day and it helps preschoolers with fine motor skills.

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.

Make a mixed up animal collage and help your preschooler build her visual arts and math skills along the way.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Make a textured name plate to hang on your preschooler's door!

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!

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

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

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.

Our heart card is a little piece of modern art that makes a great Valentine's Day gift for a creative friend. Make a heart card using paper, paint, and marbles.

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!

Tap into your child's imagination while creating magic water bottles by filling a bottle with objects that they can search for and locate.

This flexible activity for preschoolers features jellybeans, counting, coloring, and the five senses.