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

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!

Your kid can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun, chilly food!

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

Make frog feet sponge prints with your child for a fun and educational crafts activity.

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

Looking for a fun way to encourage imaginative play? Try crafting these animal dice with your preschooler.

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.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

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.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

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.

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.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

If you find yourself with a pair of kids' rain boots too cute to toss and too worn to wear, try making this fun and easy planter.

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.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

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

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

Your preschooler wonât need a passport to go on this nature safari! All you need are paper, crayons and a nature trail or your back yard.

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

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

Have your kid build an ice sculpture in this activity that's so fast, fun, and messy it's the perfect way to demonstrate how much fun experiments can be!

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!