This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Help your child hunt and capture bugs to observe to practice important science skills and satisfy her curiosity simultaneously!

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.

Summer is a great time to work on pre-kindergarten skills that will serve your child well in her first year at school, while having some fun in the sun!

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

Play Rock Tic-Tac-Toe, the perfect outdoor game for all ages. Help your child develop thinking skills and get away from the TV!

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

In this design challenge, your child will use building bricks to create a funny face. The activity instructions include question prompts thta can help guide your child through the creative process, and promote their problem-solving skills.

What do you get when you combine science and fairies? Fairy scientists who make their own potion, of course! This activity promotes critical thinking skills as your child mixes, experiments, and creates their very own fairy potions.

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

Satisfy your kindergartener's fascination of different sounds with this easy science project, where they'll use their ears instead of their eyes to identify sounds!

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

Use natural materials to try out a new kind of weaving. Your child will enjoy gathering their materials outside and then using them to create a piece of art!

This simple activity is not only fun, it's also a useful way to organize children's closets — and offer kids some autonomy to boot.

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

Show your preschooler how to create a simple windsock using a colorful piece of tissue paper, a pipe cleaner, and yarn.