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!

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

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

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

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

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

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!

This activity turns your kid into the family weatherman. Plus, it teaches him to collect data and begin to understand graphing.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

This simple activity is not only fun, it's also a useful way to organize children's closets — and offer kids some autonomy to boot.

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

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.

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.

This preschool activity uses paint chips to help your child learn about different shades of colors and how to find different colors in nature.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

Have your little astronaut create her own crater-filled moon with this fun craft project that encourages learning about the final frontier.