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!

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

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

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 a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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