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!

Kids love making shapes with Play-Doh, so they'll love creating their own colorful playful clay!

Try this kooky, spooky arts and crafts activity with your preschooler: make gummy worm ice cubes!

Get your preschooler or kindergartener into the holiday spirit by making a holiday instrument that will improve his fine motor skills and sense of rhythm.

This Play-Doh counting game will improve your little one's math skills and the hanging Christmas trees will make great decoration.

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

Here's a fun preschool arts and crafts activity: make homemade clay bead jewelry. All you need is flour, cornstarch, and salt to get started.

Want to help your kid with math? Get out the grab bag! This game is a great way to practice the tricky business of associating numbers with sets of objects.

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

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

This activity spotlights everyone's favorite reindeer, Rudolph, and preserves your child's handprints in his "antlers".

Disguise a lesson focused on shape recognition as a Santa collage, and your pre-kindergartener won't even realize she's learning!

The 100th day of school is an important benchmark for kids in the lower elementary grades. Help your kid create a 100 days of school shirt to celebrate!

Here's a simple science activity that will help your child better understand how wells bring us water.

Teach your preschooler color recognition using this handy egg carton sorter. She will group objects by color and learn to recognize their names with this tool.

Play Number Dash with your preschooler and help them learn to identify numbers, write numbers and learn about organized play.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

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.

If your preschooler needs counting practice, try this pared-down game. Kids count clips in each cup and find the playing card to match.

This life-sized self-portrait activity encourages children to explore what makes them special, and then portray it with arts and crafts!

This do-it-anywhere guessing game helps reinforce number concepts. And it's a blast to play.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Take a break with a paper bag costume. A great rainy-day art project.

Give your child a chance to experiment with how things grow. And throw in something extra to up the fun factor even more...her very own grass pet!

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

Why spend money on fingerpaint when you can make your own? With this recipe, you can stew up your kid's favorite colors right in your kitchen.

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

Help your child learn about the science of color mixing and primary and secondary colors with this experimental art activity.

Here are 3 inexpensive ways for kids to make their own beads, from scratch.