When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

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

Satisfy your kindergartener's fascination of different sounds with this easy science project, where they'll use their ears instead of their eyes to identify sounds!

With some cookie dough and ordinary household objects, let your kindergartener explore how fossil imprints are made.

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.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

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

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

Follow in the footsteps of movie character legends as you walk your little one through the steps of becoming a junior archaeologist.

How much water comes out of snow? Explore this timely question with your kindergarten scientist with this easy winter experiment.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

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 kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

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 activity, students will be challenged to describe and count the ways a toy moves from one position on a grid to another.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

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

Teach your first grade scientist the difference between liquids and solids using maple syrup.

Here's a simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.