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.

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!

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

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.

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.

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 fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

Show your preschooler how to construct this very special planter for Mom. It makes a great pick-me-up, and it's easy for kids to make in a flash!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Help your preschooler practice observing and experimenting with this exciting activity where they'll get to examine objects below the water's surface!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Your preschooler is familiar with the colors in their crayon box, but can they find these colors in the world? Take them on a scavenger hunt to find out!

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

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

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