Looking for a fun way to encourage imaginative play? Try crafting these animal dice with your preschooler.

Make a mixed up animal collage and help your preschooler build her visual arts and math skills along the way.

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.

Preschoolers need to practice hopping, skipping, and other "gross motor" skills. Why not make it fun by challenging them to move like their favorite animals?

In this variation on musical chairs, no one gets kicked "out" of the game -- instead, they get to tell other kids what to do!

Craft a pirate telescope using an old paper towel roll, and get ready for some goofy pirate adventures!

In these three games, children work on letter recognition skills with the help of some tape, music, and a few stuffed animal friends.

Create a fun fall leaf rubbing with your child to explore shapes and textures this fall.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Make an adorable nut buddy by crafting nature people out of nuts in shells! Buddies will take on their own personalities depending on the materials you use.

This adorable toy is fun to play with and easy to make. Even better, you should be able to find all the materials you need lying around your house.

Be the mane attraction by creating a lion out of leaves! This wild craft keeps kids engaged and makes for fabulous art.

Make a fuzzy bear with your kindergartener to build up early reading skills and introduce her to phonics.

Help your little one figure out the differences between the worlds of air, land and water, a huge step in understanding how our environment works.

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.

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

Summer is a great time to work on pre-kindergarten skills that will serve your child well in her first year at school, while having some fun in the sun!

Jump into pretend play this Easter with a classic preschool arts and crafts activity: make a bunny paper bag puppet!

Try this preschool arts and crafts activity: make an over-sized stuffed plaything out of butcher paper and wadded-up newspaper.

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

Dream big by making some washi tape wall art, an easy (and totally temporary) way to experiment with murals.

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

A homemade coat of arms is a great way to get your child thinking about your family's values, and it makes a fun addition to the costume box as well!

Here's a Halloween arts and crafts activity for your preschooler, pre-kindergartener, or kindergartener: make bat wings of poster board and ribbon.

In this arts and crafts activity, encourage your preschooler to create these shape-stick puppets which can be used to put on plays or act out stories with.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

As your child plays photographer, snapping pictures around the yard, he'll also be practicing recognizing letter sounds, which will help him learn to read.

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.

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