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 child will be delighted to learn about and gaze upon his favorite constellations with this set of stellar homemade placemats!

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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!

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

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