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In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

This sweet cardstock bouquet featuring your child's photo is sure to make Mom or Grandma smile on Mother's Day or any day of the year.

This imaginative art activity will help your child to better understand symmetry and explore color and shape.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

Use simple items like clothespins and yarn to craft these adorable little dolls. They're fun to make and even more fun to play with!

Good for indoor and outdoor play, this patriotic tossing game uses lightweight pieces that can be found in almost any household.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

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.

Whether your child wants to be a cowboy or a princess, this homemade horse prop is perfect to use in all sorts of imaginative play!

This creepy, crawly spider fiber arts project is a great way to practice combining different materials to create an interesting work of decorative art.

Use marbles and paint to explore the wild world of shapes and color...and build writing strength, too.

Challenge your preschooler to a game of shape match-up--an entertaining way to boost her observational ability.

Bring a bit of the luck of the Irish into your St. Patrick's Day celebration by showing your preschooler how to craft a special pot of gold.

Reuse and recycle your CDs by having your kid turn them into colorful, eye-popping suncatchers.

Practice color combinations with a learning tool that looks amazing — and delicious!

Make your own personalized set of letter flash cards to get him thinking about the alphabet while boosting his fine motor skills in the process.

Valentine's Day means an avalanche of cards and candy, but where to put them all? This is the perfect solution to help your kid keep track of all his goodies.

This fun photography activity will build your child's vocabulary, their understanding of the world, and they'll make their own game of concentration!

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

Get into the Halloween spirit by creating creepy (but cute) spiders from paper egg cartons, paint, and pipe cleaners.

This very physical game gets math off the page and into the real world-- and it works on number sense and estimation, key skills for kindergarten readiness.

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

This costume wig is a simple craft that will result in a great item for Halloween, dress up, or pretend play. Make a yarn costume wig with your child.

In this activity, your child fills jars with water to learn about acoustics, and practices mixing colors to form a rainbow of colors and sounds.

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!

Children who know the names and sounds of letters when they enter school, learn to read sooner. This activity uses a clothesline to work on alphabet sounds.