Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

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

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

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.

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

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

Got a young scientist at home? Try this project with him!Create your own molecule design with this home-made clay recipe and some toothpicks!

Let your second grader pay homage to an ancient Olympic tradition with this modern day Olympic wreath!

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.