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Little Einsteins is a wonderful show for preschoolers. The program mixes education and arts appreciation with fun and and engaging story-lines to introduce little ones to famous composers and artists.

If you are looking for a way to introduce your child to classical music and artistic masterpieces, this is definitely the show for you!

Every kid loves a good round of "freeze dance". However, do you know what would make this traditional game even better? A Little Einsteins twist, of course, and that is just what "June's Stop-and-Go Dance Party" is. 

To play, simply find several classical music pieces to play via a CD player or other music player. Set the music player up in a place where everyone can hear it and you (or another adult) can play and pause the music easily. 

This game requires a bit of preparation, before the party begins, find pictures of 15 famous paintings online. Print out three of each picture, making sure it is small enough to fit on an index card. Cut out the pictures and glue them to index cards.  For each unique picture write it's title and four descriptive clues about it on on another index card.

For example if one of your masterpieces is Starry Night by Van Gogh then your clue card would be headed with the title Starry Night and might include such clues as:

• Starry Night by Van Gogh
• lots of blues, yellows, and greens used
• swirls
• village
• moon and stars

 This is a team race (think 3-legged race). First, you'll need a Rocket and a jet - a red hula hoop and a blue hula hoop. divide players into teams of two and assign one team to the rocket (red hula hoop) and one team to the jet (blue hula hoop) to start.  The remaining teams will be the rhythm makers.

Create a course, this can be as simple as a circle around the yard players must race around, or you can add simple obstacles such as cones they must weave through. 

Relieve Annie's first solo mission by trapping a treat in a large balloon - create a prize balloon for each player. Set up some obstacle, like tall grass ( long green balloons sticking up like from the floor), a stream with stepping stones (a blanket for the stream and pillows for stepping stones) and last but not least - a sleeping bear! ( an adult who is up to the task of pretending to be a bear that you don't want to wake).

To play each player will have a chance to make it through the course by swishing and swaying though the tall grass, leaping from stone to stone, and singing softly (pianissimo) to sneak past the sleeping bear. "Here I come. I have to save my friends. I'm flying Rocket can you hear my rescue song?"

When they make it across they can then pop a balloon to retrieve their prize, which of course will wake up the bear for the next player to put back to sleep.

Music maker - Quincy can play anything, but did you know you can too? You can make instruments from all kinds of everyday objects! Turn pots and wooden spoons into drums and pot lids into crashing cymbals. Stretch large rubber bands across a shoe box for a guitar. Wrap wax paper around a comb to make a kazoo. Add dry rice or beans to an empty water bottle for a maraca, and toss in a large number of toothpicks with the rice to make a rain stick. You can go country by adding spoons (played back to back) and a jug (blow across the lid). How many household instruments can you make?

Meaningfulmama.com has 20 awesome DIY ideas for homemade instruments!

Party parade - When you have your instruments built, line everyone up behind a conductor (a mom with a baton) and follow the leader. Wherever she goes, you go. When her baton is up high, play loudly (fortissimo). When her baton is down low, play softly (pianissimo).

Little Einstein's gives a tiny twist to the game musical chairs. You've shrunk and are stuck on a bee! Make large "flowers" from poster board, felt or bunched cloth (like round tablecloths or throw blankets), enough for all but one guest. Place the "flowers" in a loose circle on the yard. Play Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov while your guests "buzz" around the garden. When the music stops, they must hurry and land on a flower. The one who doesn't, falls off his bee and regains his proper size. Remove a flower and play again. Play continues until only one bee remains!

Make a Masterpiece - let kids make their own masterpieces. For young kids, pull out the finger paints. Older kids can try their hand at watercolors. Draw swirling stars like Van Gogh, lines and color blocks like Mondrian, or paint in pointilism (using q-tips as stamp applicators) just like Seurat. Find step-by-step instructions for kids and other famous artist crafts at the craftyclassroom.com.

Pollock Paint toss - Fill small water balloons with colored water (add several drops of food color) or thin finger paints. Use chalk or duct tape to mark out a canvas on your driveway (Or line up several canvases on the ground). Line your guests up a foot or two away. Arm them and let fly! As the balloons break, the colored paint will create a unique art piece. Give them a different color and go again. Layer by layer it will build into a messy masterpiece.

Cut several rectangles of different sizes from different colors of poster board or felt. To assemble, place on rectangle on your driveway. Using gray or black duct tape, tape the rectangle's edges down, extending the tape line a foot or two from the sides and vertically the length of you intended board. Somewhere along the top horizontal line (the tape line extended from the side of the rectangle) place a second rectangle and tape down as before. Continue building rectangles until you have a good size board for your guests. Some examples of Mondrian color blocks are below. (*Note: you could also create using only chalk but results won't be as bold). The object is to hop across the board on ONLY the colored squares.