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.

Create clear sound shakers so your preschooler can observe and compare the different sounds that objects make!

This activity will encourage your child to discover the scientific process, compare sizes shapes, and build shape recognition skills.

Have your preschooler paint like Monet, and build crucial handwriting skills at the same time!

Your child will practice her counting and number recognition as she matches printed numbers to the same number of repetitions of a simple design.

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

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

Encourage your child to compare and contrast a wide variety of autumn-themed items by weighing various objects and recording their findings.

Learners will boost their visual recognition skills and become more familiar with different colors as they pair up craft sticks with the same patterns.

Painting cookies is a fun way for your child to exercise his fine motor skills and be creative at the same time.

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.

Create Fairy Tale Dice and inspire your learner to weave fantastic fairy tales and improve their reading and writing skills at the same time!

Does your child love toy cars? Here’s a terrific way for them to play with their toy cars and practice number recognition skills at the same time.

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

Show your child how to make a cool fleece poncho without any sewing, and help develop fine motor skills and patterning at the same time. Here's how.

Drift away with this charming craft that lets your child create a paper hot air balloon or two.

Your preschooler can learn how to siphon water with just two bottles and a plastic tube in this fun, educational science activity.

When it comes to working kids' muscles, nothing beats an obstacle course! Here are some easy ideas for creating your own course at home.

Delight your child by helping them to construct a boat that can hold two seaworthy toy figures in this engaging project made from upcycled water bottles.

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

Discover the wonders of simple clay by pressing flowers into a modeling medium!

A fun activity for a hot day, this will give young kids a chance to experiment with beginning science and math â and splash around in the process!

Work with your child's sense of fun by making this interesting snack, where playing with healthy food gets your child eating it

This adorable toy is fun to play with and easy to make. Even better, you should be able to find all the materials you need lying around your house.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Help your child learn her numbers and how to count with this fun number game!

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!