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

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

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

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

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

Did you know magnifying glasses are magic? This hands-on activity has kids using magnifying glasses to engage with the world around them and look close to examine what they find.

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

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.

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

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.

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, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

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!

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.

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

Show your preschooler how to create a simple windsock using a colorful piece of tissue paper, a pipe cleaner, and yarn.

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

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

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

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 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!