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Here is a guide to making a felt busy book that's perfect for focusing on specific learning areas with your child.

Let your child experience the fun of collage art while jumping into a little bee science with this bee-utiful busy bee craft.

This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your child busy, while helping them recognize letters in a creative way.

Let your child play with scissors! Put them to work, creating a book that will keep them busy, and help them practice their letters, too.

Create your own set of alphabet blocks: you can make just a few or all 26.

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

Kids have permission to get messy (just a little bit!) as they create a decorative candy cane mosaic from red and white handprints.

Stringing beads helps develop the hand-eye coordination kids need to write, and noodles are sized just right for junior jewelry-makers.

Help your preschooler create beautifully designed and textured Easter eggs using only brown and purple onion skins for a result that's just to 'dye' for!

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

Want to turn snack time into fun-time? Help him turn ordinary rice cakes into creatures that are silly, creepy, or just plain cute!

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

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 little builder move up in the world with this recycled cardboard castle that's just the right size for a young king and his loyal stuffed subjects.

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.

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.

This Where the Wild Things Are costume will make your little wild thing look just like Max. This Where the Wild Things Are costume is surprisingly easy to make.

Homemade face paint is a safe and economical way to jazz up your Halloween costume. Even better, this easy-to-make face paint requires just three ingredients!

Play a phonics scavenger hunt no matter where you are. This game will have your child sounding out words and finding letter sounds in the objects around them.

A plastic tray is the perfect tool to teach your little one how to count. Try out this activity, and your child will have her numbers down in no time.

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

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

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

With this fun activity, you can help your preschooler make an cute shopping notepad to keep and use or give away as a gift. Here's how:

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

Kids print their own smudges, then turn them into silly monsters that are sure to bring lots of laughs along the way.

This homemade snow globe is fun for kids who are excited about the arrival of winter. Kids can complete this snow globe craft quickly and easily.

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

Everyone's heard of taking a dog for a walk. But how about an illustration? This activity teaches emerging readers to use pictures as context clues.

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