Entertainment and Activities

Here are some activity and game ideas to help your kids stay cool and wet during the hot summer.

This skip-counting game is fun and makes it simple to learn new ways to count.

Follow these easy instructions to make a potpourri ball. It's fun to make and will keep any area smelling good!

This handy notepad holder can go on the refrigerator after your child decorates it.

In marble bowling, children must hit the target marble in a tense competition with one another.

A sprinkling of powdered tempera paint and a sliding ice cube can make painting more fun and exciting.

In this identification game, children have to find an item that combines the color and characteristic found on the provided grid.

This science activity uses a lemon, a paper clip, and some copper wire to demonstrate a battery's function.

This easy "clay" recipe can be used to make brooches, magnets, necklaces, or picture frames.

Make this attractive wall-mounted holder for your child's beanbag baby animals.

In this art activity, your toddler paints a Kwanzaa place mat with a corn cob.

Use a marble to help your toddler create a realistic Halloween spiderweb pattern on a paper plate.

This easy-to-make beanbag has a real fish shape, complete with open mouth and gills.

For this colorful toddler painting activity, you can use feathers from the craft store, or bird feathers you find outside.

Encourage your toddler's musical activities by building a drum out of a coffee can.

Make two identical sets of mounted pictures in this toddler game, and see whether your child can match them.

Give your toddler a different view of the world with a piece of colored cellophane.

Soap crayons get your toddler clean, and are fun to write with in the tub.