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

This gluten free recipe for coconut rice is a tasty way to help any picky eater expand her culinary horizons. She'll get great measuring practice along the way!

During Chinese New Year festivities, you see lanterns everywhere. Your child can make her very own red and gold lanterns to display at home.

This scavenger hunt game is simple, but it's fun, and it will arm your children with the directional vocabulary they should master in time for kindergarten.

This slightly tweaked version of "Hide and Go Seek" hones listening: a key skill for kindergarten.

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

Let your preschooler feel like a real chef by helping him create his very own chef's hat!

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!

This slightly messy, but tons-of-fun tactile activity will cement the idea of the land and water as pictured on maps in your young learner's mind.

Batik is a fabric dying technique usually done with hot wax. This flour-and-water method is kid-safe and easy, and it creates beautiful batik designs.

Celebrate the colors of the American flag with this playful craft project!

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:

There's no need to hunt down a cactus for this rainstick craft. In fact, you can recycle items you probably already have on hand.

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.

This activity will give pre-readers practice building a story. And it's silly fun, too!

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.