Preschool Activities : Page 5

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Celebrate African-American history with your child by cooking up peanut soup, a dish rooted in African-American culture.

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

Help your preschooler craft a homemade wind spinning device--a surefire to make your backyard sparkle, and teach her a bit about weather!

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

It can feel good to hit something when you're mad. The more your child pounds, squeezes, and mashes this dough, the better these play dough cookies will taste!

Check out this interactive number line. It's a great way to strengthen your preschoolers understanding of basic numbers and the numerals that represent them.

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

Try this new twist to the traditional memory game to help your learner match number symbols to the correct quantity while sharpening their memory skills!

This slightly messy, but tons-of-fun tactile activity will cement the idea of the land and water as pictured on maps in your young learner's mind.

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

Treasure hunts are tons of fun and they're a great way to introduce maps. Set the stage, and your kid's imagination will do the rest.

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.

Using homemade felt alphabet letters and 26 colorful pictures, your preschooler will have a great time as they practice recognizing letters and their sounds.

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

Here's a preschool activity to help your child get a head start on his day: make car-shaped toast slathered with his favorite topping.

You kid can count from one to ten, no problem. They can even do it backward. Work on their addition and subtraction skills with this fun fruit picking activity.

Familiarize your preschooler with the concept of numbers one through five and counting with this hands-on activity.

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

It's Thanksgiving, so why not celebrate of the turkey? Let the little ones partake in the turkey fun, without having to do any of the carving.

Celebrate the changing seasons with this fun, hands-on art activity that will teach your child about the different colors of the seasons.

Show your child how to spell their name in a whole new way with this sculptural 3-D art project.

Play this hidden number game with your preschooler that will give her a leg up in learning numbers.

Egg cartons are known to have abundant uses. As you get into the cold winter months, discuss penguins with your child by creating these adorable egg carton penguins!

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

Your preschooler will have a great time painting on a foil background to create a stunning, shiny work of art!

Strengthen your child's number recognition skills with this fun game using an old, empty egg carton!

Have your kid build an ice sculpture in this activity that's so fast, fun, and messy it's the perfect way to demonstrate how much fun experiments can be!

Drive away rainy day blues by making a paper tropical fish in bright colors, jazzed up with multi-colored confetti.

When it comes to working kids' muscles, nothing beats an obstacle course! Here are some easy ideas for creating your own course at home.