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Using plants and other items from the outdoors and clothing they already own, your kids can dress up as any one of the four seasons or simply as a Garden.

This crafty activity provides a hands-on way for your child to illustrate how the trees look during each season of the year.

Help your child develop her letter recognition skills throughout the week leading up to Valentineâs Day with this simple activity.

Your child will enjoy feeling independent and creative as she develops her fine motor skills while making this necklace using just yarn and colored straws.

Craft a glamorous crown that your preschooler can wear when he demonstrates good behavior!

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

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:

Try this arts and crafts activity with your preschooler: make bread from yeast dough to teach her about the science behind bread baking.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

How do you spell fun and learning? B-I-N-G-O! Children learn through play. And letter or number bingo is a great place to start.

What happens when light hits a hard surface? Find out by conducting a simple light reflection experiment with your preschooler.

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!

If you find yourself with a pair of kids' rain boots too cute to toss and too worn to wear, try making this fun and easy planter.

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!

Help your child develop his counting and language skills with this fun activity. He'll be a number hero for a day and learn about safety while he's at it.

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.

Encourage your child to eat nutritiously by having them build this delicious summer fruit cone!

This cookie dough handles like molding clay, but also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

Increase your preschooler's observation skills with this fun and colorful science experiment!

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

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

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

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!

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

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.

If using regular watercolors is getting a little dry, liven things up by using salt to create a beautiful painting with unique crystal texture!

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

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.