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.

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!

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

Help your child hunt and capture bugs to observe to practice important science skills and satisfy her curiosity simultaneously!

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.

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

Aquariums are usually reserved for fish, but this aquarium will contain creatures from your child's imagination!

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.

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

Looking for a fun way to encourage imaginative play? Try crafting these animal dice with your preschooler.

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

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

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

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.

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

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

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.

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!

Give your child a chance to experiment with how things grow. And throw in something extra to up the fun factor even more...her very own grass pet!