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There's no need to buy musical instruments when you can make your own castanets in less time than it takes to click your way through a percussive song.

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

Your child can celebrate Mexican culture by making his very own percussion instrument using simple materials such as paper plates and tissue paper.

Help your preschooler grasp the concept of ordering and sequence while teaching him valuable vocabulary with simple activities around the house.

Make a periscope with milk cartons and mirrors! This preschool activity is great for playing secret agent and learning simple physics.

With a little guidance from parents, youngsters can create a Christmas tree using their thumb as a stamp.

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

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

Boost your child's early literacy skills and create alphabet tiles she can play and practice with - great reinforcement for ABC's, phonics and writing!

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

This clay doesn't need to go into the oven. Brew up a batch, let your child shape it, and dry overnight. By morning, it's ready for paint. Perfect for holidays!

Show your child how to make a cool fleece poncho without any sewing, and help develop fine motor skills and patterning at the same time. Here's how.

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!

Your child may have fallen in love with certain brand-name trains, but it's just as much fun to make your own - and a whole lot cheaper. Here's how.

Your little preschool elf will develop some important fine motor skills while creating an entertaining game: Pin the Star on the Christmas Tree!

This activity will help your child develop her fine motor skills and build spatial awareness,and it's a great way to jazz up snack time!

Help your child learn about the various elements of a story by creating a play based on her favorite picture book.

Here's a tasty way to give your child some counting practice.

Save money and get creative by helping your preschooler create and make her own unique sketchbook to put her art in.

Your child will begin to recognize written color names as she looks at the different patterns and matches them up with the correct colors.

Preschoolers can explore shapes and texture in this fun and fantastically messy art project!

Painting cookies is a fun way for your child to exercise his fine motor skills and be creative at the same time.

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

This adorable toy is fun to play with and easy to make. Even better, you should be able to find all the materials you need lying around your house.

Halloween is approaching, so why not create some ghost flash cards that will help your child learn their numbers the spooky way?

Make these homemade shell fossils and introduce your child to the wonders of science!

This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.

Turn snack time into a healthy ho-ho-holiday activity! Make a face that looks like a cartoon Santa using fruits. It will be a fun activity that will get your family in the holiday spirit, and spice up your snack time with healthy treats.

This quick and simple preschool mirror activity will introduce your child to the science of reflection and light with a flashlight experiment and picture game.