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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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!

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

Who says snow globes are just for winter? Help your child create a summer version with this fun art project!

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!

The weather is a key kindergarten science concept. With this activity your child will learn about wind direction and create a self portrait, too!

Make these homemade shell fossils and introduce your child to the wonders of science!

What's a crater, and how does it happen? Here's a kindergarten experiment with safe, nontoxic ingredients.

It's a rare kid who doesn't like a sandbox. Next time you're out digging, build in some earth science, too.

Brighten up your home with this fun activity! Make a summer sun print and teach your child the art of easy print making.

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

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.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Use dirt and different colors of craft sand to make unique layers in a clear plastic cup to represent the layers of the Earth.

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

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.