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Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how:

Does your preschooler like cereal? Explore numbers with everyday objects and food with this fun counting activity.

Help your child learn her numbers and how to count with this fun number game!

Does your child love toy cars? Here’s a terrific way for them to play with their toy cars and practice number recognition skills at the same time.

When your child is itching for a game, consider ditching Hide and Seek in favor of Shape and Seek. Here's how it works:

Preschoolers are fascinated by how colors can be mixed to form new ones. This activity combines color mixing with the concept of melting for extra science fun.

With this fun activity, you can help your preschooler make an cute shopping notepad to keep and use or give away as a gift. Here's how:

Boost your preschooler's math and verbal skills by having her participate in simple, fun activities that teach her how to sort, count, and categorize objects.

You don't need to spend big bucks to buy a pre-boxed version of a matching game at the store. You can make your own easily. Here's how:

A plastic tray is the perfect tool to teach your little one how to count. Try out this activity, and your child will have her numbers down in no time.

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

Introduce the idea of measuring weight to your preschooler or kindergartener by making a fun and easy-to-use bungee scale to weigh household objects.

This very physical game gets math off the page and into the real world-- and it works on number sense and estimation, key skills for kindergarten readiness.

This do-it-anywhere guessing game helps reinforce number concepts. And it's a blast to play.

If your preschooler needs counting practice, try this pared-down game. Kids count clips in each cup and find the playing card to match.

Encourage your child to compare and contrast a wide variety of autumn-themed items by weighing various objects and recording their findings.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Help your child develop his counting and language skills with this fun activity. He'll be a number hero for a day and learn about safety while he's at it.

Put your junk mail to good use! Armed with a stack ads and a few simple art supplies, your preschooler can make a cool poster for his room.

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

Challenge your preschooler to a game of shape match-up--an entertaining way to boost her observational ability.

Serve up this pretend play activity to your preschooler to give her counting skills a healthy boost.

This flexible activity for preschoolers features jellybeans, counting, coloring, and the five senses.

Your preschooler wonât need a passport to go on this nature safari! All you need are paper, crayons and a nature trail or your back yard.

A fun activity for a hot day, this will give young kids a chance to experiment with beginning science and math â and splash around in the process!

This activity turns your kid into the family weatherman. Plus, it teaches him to collect data and begin to understand graphing.

Try a 100th Day of School Scavenger Hunt with your preschooler, and send her on the search for objects of different colors!

Forget the measuring stick! This fun math activity uses a body part, your child's hand, as a ruler.

Help your child identify numbers with this fun preschool math art activity! Explore different textures and colors as he learns numbers.