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

This simple movement activity helps improve listening skills, as your child will be required to discriminate between sound and silence.

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 shamrock magnet is the perfect project for St. Patrick's Day. It's simple to make and will fill your refrigerator with Irish spirit!

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!

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!

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Maracas are most commonly found in music around the world. Introduce your child to percussion and rhythm with this easy-to-make instrument.

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

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

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