Get active at home by pretending to be different animals! Use this fun and engaging activity to move your body, get silly, and practice gross motor skills.

Here's Twist 'N Turn: let your preschooler or pre-kindergartener be outside and active while learning about shapes, colors, directions, and word recognition.

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

Here are some kindergarten readiness activities that you can do with reused plastic bottle caps.

Help your preschooler grasp the concept of ordering and sequence while teaching him valuable vocabulary with simple activities around the house.

Boost your preschooler's math and verbal skills by having her participate in simple, fun activities that teach her how to sort, count, and categorize objects.

With these days of the week flip flaps, your child has the chance to explore days of the week, track special and routine activities, and practice writing time.

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

Using simple materials, children will create a movement card game that the whole family can play together.

In this leap frog activity, your child will use their muscles to jump over friends and onto lily pads as they practices number recognition.

This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.

Your preschooler will engage their senses by making a scented pumpkin to decorate your house.

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

Need help encouraging your preschool child to organize her toys? Start with this activity, and turn sorting and categorizing into a fun game.

Play Number Dash with your preschooler and help them learn to identify numbers, write numbers and learn about organized play.

Make unique holiday ornaments with this sticky, stringy art project.

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

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

Boost your child's early literacy skills and create alphabet tiles she can play and practice with - great reinforcement for ABC's, phonics and writing!

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

Summer is a good time to teach children about other kinds of community helpers, such as lifeguards, forest rangers, and librarians. This activity is a fun way to get them introduced!

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

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Tell your child you want to work on kindergarten readiness skills and she's not likely to jump up and clap. But turn it into a game and it's a different story.

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

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

What do you get when you combine science and fairies? Fairy scientists who make their own potion, of course! This activity promotes critical thinking skills as your child mixes, experiments, and creates their very own fairy potions.

Collect 26 rocks and paint each one with a letter of the alphabet for your very own alphabet rock collection.

This hands-on activity that involves arranging pieces of yarn will teach your pre-K child the concept of ordering items by length in an interesting way.