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Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

This slightly messy, but tons-of-fun tactile activity will cement the idea of the land and water as pictured on maps in your young learner's mind.

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

Ignite your kindergartener's love of adventure and learning with an imaginary trip under the sea.

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

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

This activity is a fun way to "go fishing" with your preschooler, while learning about the concepts of freezing and melting.

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

This super fun science project, perfect for young children, combines crafts, dressing up as animals, outdoor play, and life science learning.

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

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

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

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

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.

Help your little one figure out the differences between the worlds of air, land and water, a huge step in understanding how our environment works.

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

Follow in the footsteps of movie character legends as you walk your little one through the steps of becoming a junior archaeologist.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

Travel back to the Jurassic age with this creative dinosaur activity that would make a great addition to any wall or fridge.

With some cookie dough and ordinary household objects, let your kindergartener explore how fossil imprints are made.

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

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.

How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

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 create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

In the mood for a bit of silly science? Help your child create a truly one-of-a-kind planter out of a potato head!

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!