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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 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.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

Make a periscope with milk cartons and mirrors! This preschool activity is great for playing secret agent and learning simple physics.

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

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

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

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

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!

In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how:

Help your little one figure out the differences between the worlds of air, land and water, a huge step in understanding how our environment works.

Teach your child about using pumps to move water in this simple and educational preschool science activity!

Make this easy composting dessert and then enjoy the yummy results!

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

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

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

How can you tell the difference between a spider and an insect? Your child will find out as he makes a tray of yummy creepy crawly snacks.

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!

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

Tin can phones offer something modern versions don't—a fun project to make with a friend, and a dramatic illustration of vibration and sound waves.

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!