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

This Hanukkah countdown craft will help your little one count the eight nights of Hanukkah. Make a Hanukkah countdown calendar with your child.

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.

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:

Encourage your child to help make dinner special this holiday season! If your child is loves to help in the kitchen, this is a great activity. They will build mini-penguins to enjoy while waiting for dinner!

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

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

In this creative arts and crafts activity, children will design and create their very own alphabet tree!

Ever wonder where paint comes from? This recipe works well with preschoolers because of its consistency and its natural nontoxicity.

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

This hanging wall pot made from homemade clay is a perfect arts and crafts activity for preschoolers.

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

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

Transform paper towel tubes into some great binoculars for imaginary playtime!

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

Build a peek-a-boo book and give your child a fun vocabulary and reading boost, on the fly!

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

Learn how to make a menorah with this simple Hanukkah craft. See how to make a menorah for the Festival of Lights.

Your preschooler will not realize she's practicing her counting skills while playing with this interactive cereal abacus!

Practice counting, sequencing, and pattern recognition with your young learner in this fun math card game!

Pumpkins sure look adorable when bundled up in hats and cozy scarves!

Here's an activity to inspire your preschooler to learn to recognize numbers and count than by using fun and funky rubber stamps to make her own flashcards!

Encourage your child to help with dinner preparations this holiday season! You can use this recipe for Christmas dinner or lunch, or for meals leading up to the holiday. This Christmas Wreath Salad recipe is simple enough for preschoolers to fifth graders