Search Preschool Science Arts & Crafts Hands-on Activities

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the preschool curriculum. Put a fun twist on this science concept with these cup pets.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

This simple activity is not only fun, it's also a useful way to organize children's closets — and offer kids some autonomy to boot.

Teach your preschooler about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for her with this fun activity that you both can do together.

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

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

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.

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 plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

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

Using plants and other items from the outdoors and clothing they already own, your kids can dress up as any one of the four seasons or simply as a Garden.

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

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

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

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!