In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how:

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.

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

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

Help your preschooler craft a homemade wind spinning device--a surefire to make your backyard sparkle, and teach her a bit about weather!

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!

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!

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

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

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!