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.

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

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

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

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

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 preschooler will engage their senses by making a scented pumpkin to decorate your house.

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 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!

Help your preschooler craft a homemade wind spinning device--a surefire to make your backyard sparkle, and teach her a bit about weather!

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!

This quick and simple preschool mirror activity will introduce your child to the science of reflection and light with a flashlight experiment and picture game.

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 construct this very special planter for Mom. It makes a great pick-me-up, and it's easy for kids to make in a flash!

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!

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

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

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

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