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!

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

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.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

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 fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

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.

Ignite your kindergartener's love of adventure and learning with an imaginary trip under the sea.

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

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

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

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

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

Help children understand the power of germs and the importance of hand washing with this visual activity that introduces the concept of scientific inquiry.

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

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

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

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

Set up a fun guessing game for your curious kindergartener, one that will test her ability to use all five of her senses.

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

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

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!