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.

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

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.

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

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

Wreath ornaments decorate your Christmas tree and act as a fun sensory craft for preschoolers. Make wreath ornaments with your child this holiday season.

This easy project for little hands uses mushroom spores to make an imprint of the mushroom, and the result is very beautiful.

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

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

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

Help children understand the power of germs and the importance of hand washing with this visual activity that introduces the concept of scientific inquiry.

This simple project makes young children aware of their sense of smell and its capacity for providing them with information about their world.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

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!

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

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!

Give your science savvy kindergarten a lesson in plant science with this fun carnation experiment.

Set up a fun guessing game for your curious kindergartener, one that will test her ability to use all five of her senses.

If you find yourself with a pair of kids' rain boots too cute to toss and too worn to wear, try making this fun and easy planter.

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

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

Looking for a fun way to encourage imaginative play? Try crafting these animal dice with your preschooler.

Help your preschooler practice observing and experimenting with this exciting activity where they'll get to examine objects below the water's surface!

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

Help your child hunt and capture bugs to observe to practice important science skills and satisfy her curiosity simultaneously!

In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!