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Explore aromas with your child and help boost her brain power with some fun and interactive science activities.

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

Your preschooler will engage their senses by making a scented pumpkin to decorate your house.

Want to help make studying the nervous system a little more fun? This thinking cap is a great way to learn external human brain anatomy.

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

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.

Give your science savvy kindergarten a lesson in plant science with this fun carnation experiment.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

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!

This project examines which type of dance burns the most calories.

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

Help your child build her very own science laboratory at home for experiments and science projects. This is a quick, easy, and fun educational tool!

This activity is a great way to teach kids that, to find examples of science in action, they donât need to look any further than their own backyard.

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

Your child can help your family pet take a breather, and help herself relax, too, with this soothing activity.

This project examines who can jump higher, boys or girls, younger people or older, and how these two factors, gender and age, interact with one another.

Hold a magnet marathon! Explore the power of magnets with your kindergartener in this entertaining and simple science game.

This easy project for little hands uses mushroom spores to make an imprint of the mushroom, and the result is very beautiful.

In this middle school activity, your child will learn how to press plants and create her very own herbarium, or plant library! Here's how:

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

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!

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

Here's an arts and crafts guide for your high-school teenager that'll help her create a naturalist drawing and painting.

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!