Help young learners discover why catÃs eyes glow in the dark with this simple experiment

Hold a magnet marathon! Explore the power of magnets with your kindergartener in this entertaining and simple science game.

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

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

Use simple materials to build a "worm hotel" with your kindergarten soil scientist...and see what worms really do all day.

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

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

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.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

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

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

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.

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

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.

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

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!

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 fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

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).

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

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!

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

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.

Magnets may hold up papers on the fridge, but is it the paper that attracts them? Find out more with this kindergarten science investigation.

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.