Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

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.

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for your preschool or pre-kindergarten child: make a tubescope out of a cardboard tube and colored and wax paper!

Your preschooler will strengthen his fine motor skills by cutting, painting, and drawing as he creates a crafty caterpillar out of an egg carton.

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

In this arts and crafts activity, encourage your preschooler to create these shape-stick puppets which can be used to put on plays or act out stories with.

Your preschooler can learn how to siphon water with just two bottles and a plastic tube in this fun, educational science activity.

Build memory and motor skills with this musical movement game!

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

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

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:

Have fun with the kids by "shaping up" your standard chocolate chip cookie recipe, and teach kids about sorting and shapes while you're at it.

Here's an arts and crafts activity that has your preschooler or pre-kindergartener bringing home the beach with this underwater beach scene.

Try this art activitythat has your preschooler making chaotic paint designs with just a paintbrush pendulum!

Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!

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

Use common kitchen tools to create an entirely uncommon work of art!

Kids love to hear about themselves. And reading about themselves is even better! This personal yearbook will let them record all their important facts.

Here's a fun way for your preschooler to practice making predictions. Shake up marbles covered in paint to see what colorful design you'll make!

Give snack time a fresh floral touch with this flower-shaped garden snack, perfect for tea parties with your preschooler!

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

Help your kindergartener practice letter strokes while experimenting with the painting style of the great artist Mondrian.

This guessing game is a hoot. And it helps teach kids to categorize a set of objects-- a key skill for preschool.

Make a peace dove to commemorate Black History Month and hang it in your home as a quiet reminder of the spirit of the movement.

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

Learn how to make fairy wings with these easy instructions. See how to make fairy wings for Halloween or dress-up time.

These homemade thumbprint cards are as personalized as it gets, and your child will love using his prints to make holiday magic!

In this activity, you will create a magical box to help your child learn her letter sounds. Here's how to play the Abracadabra learning game!

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