Entertainment and Activities

Make some dough with this easy recipe, then let your child shape it into small figures or shapes. With just a few more steps, you'll have new refrigerator magnets!

Paper doll chains are fun to make, and they can be used as a border on any plain wall in your home.

Using a precut wood shape, your child can create a message clip as a gift for a favorite adult.

This card game works best with two to four children, and involves matching suits and numbers.

Building a house of cards is a much easier challenge if you cut slits in them.

Using balloons as flashlight filters, your kids can learn mixing colors and make a colored light show.

A sunny spot and a homemade composter will make great soil.

Scatter the pennies over an open room, blindfold the children, and see who wins the rainy-day scavenger hunt.

Here's a list of great books no toddler should be without.

Paint directly on your toddler's hand to make an Thanksgiving day turkey stamp.

Your toddler can make a marbleized Valentine's Day card with tempera paints and a small rolling pin.

Food coloring will stain your toddler's fingers for a day, but his art will be shiny and beautiful!

In this rainy-day activity, your child must fall down when the music stops. It's even more fun with a group!

Teach your toddler to recognize which object is larger. Here are some tips.

Cut out car pictures from magazines, and make a car book with your toddler.

Your toddler will enjoy having colored ice cubes floating in the tub with him!

Toddlers can have fun filling up baskets with just about anything in the pretend grocery store.

Homemade gift wrap is an economical and environmentally sound art project.