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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.

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

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

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.

Make an adorable nut buddy by crafting nature people out of nuts in shells! Buddies will take on their own personalities depending on the materials you use.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

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

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.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

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

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

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.

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

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

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.

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

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

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.

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

Did you know magnifying glasses are magic? This hands-on activity has kids using magnifying glasses to engage with the world around them and look close to examine what they find.

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:

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

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.