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 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.

Have your child create her own version of an ancient Egyptian jewelry cuff similar to one that a goddess might have worn with this fun recycled craft.

In this game, your child and his friends will need to use their observational skills as they try to figure out who's got the peanut!

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.

Puppets can help preschoolers practice communication and conflict resolution.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days