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Design a survival kit. Brainstorm various survival scenarios. Address basic human requirements and natural resources. Describe each tool as well uses.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

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 weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

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

In this activity, children will work on their mathematics and engineering skills as they attempt to recreate the Eiffel Tower out of building blocks!

Hone your child's skills of observation and take a look at forensic science for an interesting afternoon of exploration and detective work!

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

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

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.

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

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

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.

Your 1st grade scientist will improve her observation skills as she's encouraged to eat healthy by comparing the dry and fresh fruit in this experiment.

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

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

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!

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

Satisfy your sweet tooth with this easy summer activity! Make homemade ice cream and let your child practice his science skills.

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!