Foam Flowers Supplies: Foam sheets of assorted colors (similar to foam stickers but without the stick); pipe cleaners; scissors.  How-to: Cut flower shape in foam. For a layered look--like the blue, pink, purple daisy

Zoo Map:  Supplies: large piece of paper; markers or crayons; pictures of animals (see above variations!); gluestick.  Activity: Have your child decide how to sort the animals--by habitat, by color, by alphabetical

Cartoon characters are everywhere, from underwear packages and cereal boxes to greeting cards and magazine ads. Save these images and put them to good use!  Supplies: character image; popsicle stick; paperboard; gluestick;

Sticker or Art Bookmark  Supplies: 4 x 6” colored card stock cut in half (2 x 6”), stickers, do-it-yourself self-laminating sheets. How-to: Decorate with stickers on both sides of the card stock, then

Make a game out of learning what stop means. Use this visual to play Red Light, Green Light. Supplies: 2 paper plates, a flat stick such as a paint stirrer, red and green construction paper. How-to: Cut out one red and one

Supplies: 7 pieces of white paper, pen, crayons. Optional: self-laminating sheets. How-to: Stack and fold paper in half like a book. Staple folded edge. Write your child’s name on cover, such as “Sam’s Alphabet.”

Children love to look at other babies. When my daughter started “reading” my parenting magazines and ripping out pages because she was so intent on a picture, I figured out it was time for her to have her own