This slightly messy, but tons-of-fun tactile activity will cement the idea of the land and water as pictured on maps in your young learner's mind.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

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

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

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

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

This fun and crafty activity is easy enough for your child to lend a helping hand and makes a great indoor or outdoor game.

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!

Using plants and other items from the outdoors and clothing they already own, your kids can dress up as any one of the four seasons or simply as a Garden.

Make these homemade shell fossils and introduce your child to the wonders of science!

Use sticks and stones to create create an outdoor version of tic-tac-toe!

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

With some cookie dough and ordinary household objects, let your kindergartener explore how fossil imprints are made.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

This craft is an excellent way to learn about African-American history, and it also provides fine motor practice.

What's a crater, and how does it happen? Here's a kindergarten experiment with safe, nontoxic ingredients.

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

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

Have your child make a special mobile inspired by the weather outside. Learn about seasons, the environment, and art in 3D.

Your child will be delighted to learn about and gaze upon his favorite constellations with this set of stellar homemade placemats!

This activity turns your kid into the family weatherman. Plus, it teaches him to collect data and begin to understand graphing.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.

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.