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!

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

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

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

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

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

This crafty activity provides a hands-on way for your child to illustrate how the trees look during each season of the year.

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

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.

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Have your child make a special mobile inspired by the weather outside. Learn about seasons, the environment, and art in 3D.

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 this easy composting dessert and then enjoy the yummy results!

Help your child make an attractive frozen holiday ornament to hang outside during winter months.

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!

Here's a simple science activity that will help your child better understand how wells bring us water.

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

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

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

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.