Use dirt and different colors of craft sand to make unique layers in a clear plastic cup to represent the layers of the Earth.

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

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.

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

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

This project makes young children uniquely aware of their sense of touch and its ability to alone give them information about the world around them.

Lead your first grader on a nature walk ... with a scavenger hunt-style twist! They'll try to capture photos that correspond to paint chip colors.

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

Create your very own scented hand sanitizer that will help your child to keep those nasty germs at bay!

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

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

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

This science fair project idea demonstrates how air resistance contributes to denser objects falling faster than less dense objects.

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

The objective of this science project is to determine the length of time for different seeds to germinate.

This science fair project idea explores how length affects the weight a bridge can hold.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

In this kindergarten activity your child will create a map of your house and use a magnet to move pictures of your family through the house!

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

How do people move pianos and heavy furniture into tall buildings? Show your kids some pulley potential with this simple household exercise!

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.

Checkerboard play challenges students to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking.

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

This project examines whether people's taste perception is influenced by what they see.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

In this insulation experiment, you'll learn which clothes keep you warm in the cold, and which make you shiver.

What do worms eat? Kids find out what kinds of rotting leaves and vegetables worms prefer in this cool compost science fair project.