Get Dirty! 10 Messy Activities for Sunny Day Fun

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

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as she plants radish seeds and watches them grow.

It's spring--time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your kindergartener to mark the spot in style.

Make this easy composting dessert and then enjoy the yummy results!

This activity is a great way to stretch the boundaries of your child's imagination and build up important critical thinking skills.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Help your child create a tasty treat that will demonstrate exactly how frogs survive a freezing season.

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!

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