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What happens when light hits a hard surface? Find out by conducting a simple light reflection experiment with your preschooler.

How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

Got an empty bottle sitting around collecting dust? Put it to good use by turning it into a homemade night light for your kids.

Quickly update your child's room by decorating the switchplate over the light switch! It will add a funky flair to any room in the house.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Feed your preschoolerâs love for all things transportation-related with this tasty and educational snack.

In this science fair project, we'll explore how blocking the sun's light can stop those can stop photosensitive paper from changing color.

Help your child make sense of our colorful world with this easy-to-make color challenge!

It's a race against time to see how quickly she can color match and correctly place all of the water beads!

Your child will begin to recognize written color names as she looks at the different patterns and matches them up with the correct colors.

Your kid and his friends will have a blast taking turns playing the role of a traffic cop in this Labor Day version of the classic game Red Light, Green Light.

Teach your preschooler color recognition using this handy egg carton sorter. She will group objects by color and learn to recognize their names with this tool.

Kids get innovative as they mix their own colors then make a painting with the new shades of color they've created.

Here's a preschool color collage activity to help your child work on their sorting skills, and create a beautiful addition to the refrigerator gallery.

Help your child craft a magnetic menorah that they can safely "light" themselves!

Make a natural wooden peg board to sharpen your child's color skills. Help your little one ace her color matching skills with this natural wooden peg board.

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

This year, help your child celebrate Easter by upcycling an old light bulb and make a cute little chicken face.

Help your preschooler explore the effects of light and shadow, and make a pretty sun print at the same time!

This quick and simple preschool mirror activity will introduce your child to the science of reflection and light with a flashlight experiment and picture game.

Get into the Christmas spirit with this fun and messy finger painting activity. This fun activity will light up the day like holiday lights!

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

This preschool activity uses paint chips to help your child learn about different shades of colors and how to find different colors in nature.

Every day will be a new experience as you explore and learn about the different colors.

Enjoy the beautiful outdoors and indulge in a colorful game of I Spy while you're at it! It's just as fun as classic I Spy but twice as educational.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

This baking activity lets kids play with frosting, while experimenting with colors, and how they mix.

Give your science savvy kindergarten a lesson in plant science with this fun carnation experiment.

Your preschooler is familiar with the colors in their crayon box, but can they find these colors in the world? Take them on a scavenger hunt to find out!