Engage your preschool children's senses by discovering nature and geography on a walk through the neighborhood.

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

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

The pottery technique of coiling may be old, but it's probably new to your kid! Make coil pots with your preschooler throw in a little cultural lesson too!

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

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:

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.

Want to help your child learn more about his community while boosting creativity? Set up a post office play station right in your very own home!

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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.

This dreidel ornament makes a sparkling spinning top out of popsicle sticks. Make this dreidel ornament and get ready for Hanukkah.

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

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

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!