By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Your preschooler can learn how to siphon water with just two bottles and a plastic tube in this fun, educational science activity.

Give your child a chance to experiment with how things grow. And throw in something extra to up the fun factor even more...her very own grass pet!

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.

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

This quick and simple preschool mirror activity will introduce your child to the science of reflection and light with a flashlight experiment and picture game.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

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

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.

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

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

This fun and crafty activity is easy enough for your child to lend a helping hand and makes a great indoor or outdoor game.

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.

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.

Tin can phones offer something modern versions don't—a fun project to make with a friend, and a dramatic illustration of vibration and sound waves.

Make this easy composting dessert and then enjoy the yummy results!

Using plants and other items from the outdoors and clothing they already own, your kids can dress up as any one of the four seasons or simply as a Garden.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

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

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

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

What do you get when you combine science and fairies? Fairy scientists who make their own potion, of course! This activity promotes critical thinking skills as your child mixes, experiments, and creates their very own fairy potions.

Make homemade lemonade in a baggie with your preschooler with this fun and easy recipe.

Make frog feet sponge prints with your child for a fun and educational crafts activity.

Teach your preschooler some physics that she can relate to with this fun and simple activity!

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

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

Teach your child about using pumps to move water in this simple and educational preschool science activity!

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