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Turn Salt Water into Drinking Water

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

Make a spring collage with your preschooler to get her outside and those creative juices flowing!

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

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:

Nature Rubbings

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.

Flower Pressing

Show your preschooler how to press flowers into a modeling medium to discover the wonders of simple clay play!

How to Make a Sketchbook

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

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

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!

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help her build fine motor skills.

Pick Your Own Berries

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!

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

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.

Color Scavenger Hunt

Your preschooler is familiar with the colors in her crayon box, but can she find these colors in the world? Take her on a scavenger hunt.

Tissue Paper Butterfly Hunt

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

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