Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

This project explores the interaction between air pressure and playing surface in determining a basketballâs bounce.

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

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

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

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

In this project, a basketball containing different psi is dropped to see how well it bounces.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

This bread mold experiment will help your child learn about mold, and he'll develop important hypothesis-making and experiment-designing skills.

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.

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!

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Brine shrimp usually live in saltwater. Investigate how salt concentration (salinity) affects the rate at which brine shrimp eggs hatch.

Sink or swim? Calculate the density of various fruits and vegetables using water and a kitchen scale.

Figure out which fruit has the most vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in this fun science project!

Kids conduct a simple birdseed experiment to figure out what kinds of birds live nearby in this fun science activity.

This project determines how much the rebound rates of tennis balls change after ten games.

This basketball project explores the best way to make the perfect shot every time.

Compare the whitening abilities of four different brands of whitening toothpaste to see which one whitens the fastest and which one whitens the most.

This project determines whether hands-on practice, mental practice, or no practice leads to better shooting of free-throws.

In this cool science experiment, test and compare the adhesive holding strength of homemade casein glue versus commercial glue.

This project examines the vulnerability of fruit flies, Drosophila melanigaster, to irradiation. Will exposure result in mutations?

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

This simple project makes young children aware of their sense of smell and its capacity for providing them with information about their world.

Experiment about connection of senses of taste and smell. Using blindfold and noseplugs, administer blind taste test. Analyze results and organize data.