This versatile clay-like material hardens if left out and can be used for building sand castles, forts, and even school projects.

Teach your kids about colors and patterns while creating a beautiful work of art.

Use dirt and different colors of craft sand to make unique layers in a clear plastic cup to represent the layers of the Earth.

Children learn about the benefits of mindfulness, teach someone else what they've learned, and create a sand timer to use during mindfulness practice.

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.

Help your kindergartener practice counting from one to ten with this fun outdoor activity. Make a "My Backyard Counting Book" to review counting to ten.

Help your child make an imaginative, inexpensive spaceship from recycled materials. When the spaceship is ready, count backwards from ten and then BLAST-OFF!

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

Here's a salt dough recipe that can be used to make ghostly character sticks for fun Halloween decor.

Learn how different types of soil affect how animal tracks form in this experiment!

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

Help your kindergarten scientist explore an important part of earth science: how soil retains water.

In this activity, your child will develop her sensory awareness and build important math skills while having fun outdoors.

Kids are sure to be entranced by the magic of the ocean when they create their very own ocean in a bottle.

Your child can help eliminate stress for himself or a loved one by creating a colorful, homemade stress ball.

Mix fun with basic math in this fun homemade game of ring toss! Make rings out of paper plates and you're ready to play anytime, anywhere!

Try making your own conch planter in this decorative shell.

Warm up your little one's counting skills with this adorable winter number-match game. Play until she's warmed up and ready to count all on her own!

Help your child stay physically and mentally active with this group aerobic fitness game that's good for the heart and mind alike.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

This project commemorates the milestone of completing the first 100 days of school, while giving your child a manipulative to practice counting to 100.

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

Try this kindergarten arts and crafts activity: re-purpose an old t-shirt into a simple apron to use for your child's cooking and art projects.

Use simple materials to build a "worm hotel" with your kindergarten soil scientist...and see what worms really do all day.

In this awesome science fair project idea, kids will be attempting to pick up different objects using snail slime.