If they are not old enough you can draw designs, shapes, letters, numbers, pictures before hand and simply

Before inviting a child to create Cherry Blossoms you can show of images of the trees, branches, flowers

Before you begin excavating you can have your child build structures.

For older children you can ask them to guess how many items they predict are in the whisk before hand

Typically babies naturally learn to take things out before putting them.

Before inviting a child to create snowflakes you can read a book, show images or videos of snowflakes

Children can sort colors before naming them, so this aides in enhancing their color recognition skills

For younger children you will have to set this up before hand, if they are old enough to do so themselves

Before inviting a child to explore the small world play, you can teach them about those who played major

begin to understand and investigate with ideas such as more/less, same/different, many/few, empty/full, before

begin to understand & investigate with ideas such as more/less, same/different, many/few, empty/full, before

Before having my son, I have always dreamed about creating a sandbox from an old boat.