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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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

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

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

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

What happens when light hits a hard surface? Find out by conducting a simple light reflection experiment with your preschooler.

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.

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!