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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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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!

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

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

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

When the wind starts blowing, you and your child can plant a sponge garden in the comfort of your own kitchen. Here's how:

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

How can you tell the difference between a spider and an insect? Your child will find out as he makes a tray of yummy creepy crawly snacks.

Here's a simple science activity that will help your child better understand how wells bring us water.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

In this art project, budding entomologists will create a larger than life, moveable puppet version of a praying mantis.

Try this arts and crafts activity with your preschooler: make bread from yeast dough to teach her about the science behind bread baking.

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 create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.