Early Childhood Engineering and Science Inquiry Educational Resources

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

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!

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

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

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

In this design challenge, your child will use building bricks to create a funny face. The activity instructions include question prompts thta can help guide your child through the creative process, and promote their problem-solving skills.

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

This flexible activity for preschoolers features jellybeans, counting, coloring, and the five senses.

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

Your preschooler can learn how to siphon water with just two bottles and a plastic tube in this fun, educational science activity.

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:

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

Wreath ornaments decorate your Christmas tree and act as a fun sensory craft for preschoolers. Make wreath ornaments with your child this holiday season.

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.

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

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!

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

Make homemade lemonade in a baggie with your preschooler with this fun and easy recipe.

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.