Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

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

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

First grade science often covers solids, liquids, and gases. This silly science explores serious facts about the difference between all three.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

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

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

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

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!

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

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.

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

In this science fair project, young children will become aware of and have the opportunity to experience the four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

Why does purple cheese look nasty? Because color plays a big part in how we perceive the taste of different foods. Are birds just like us in this respect?

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.

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

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

Cinnamon is tasty, but does it have super powers as well? Find out if cinnamon can repel mosquitoes in this outdoorsy experiment.

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.

This science fair project idea investigates if webbed feet help a duck (and others) swim.

Introduce your child to the wonders of colorful chemistry with this simple food coloring project.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Use sticks and stones to create create an outdoor version of tic-tac-toe!

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

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