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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!

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:

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.

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

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.

How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

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

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

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

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.

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

Your preschooler is familiar with the colors in their crayon box, but can they find these colors in the world? Take them on a scavenger hunt to find out!

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.

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.

What happens when light hits a hard surface? Find out by conducting a simple light reflection experiment with your preschooler.

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

Help your preschooler practice observing and experimenting with this exciting activity where they'll get to examine objects below the water's surface!

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

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!

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.

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

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

In this art project, budding entomologists will create a larger than life, moveable puppet version of a praying mantis.