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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.

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

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

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!

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.

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

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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.

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

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

Want to spark your third grader's interest in gardening? Help him make popsicle stick fairies to decorate an enchanting garden oasis.

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

In this free science fair project idea, we learn about surface tension and how it can support mass—in this case, a floating paper clip.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

Transform your uncomfortable wooden shoes into charming mini planters!

For this science fair project, kids will learn how to make a lemon battery. They can conduct this classic experiment using readily available materials.

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

Dinosaurs were huge creatures that left behind huge footprints that lasted for millions of years. In this science fair project, kids learn how dinosaur tracks were left behind!

Want to make Halloween truly eerie? Science to the rescue! These ghouly hands come alive with a little help from simple chemistry.

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

This activity is a fun challenge for students who have just started learning to program educational robots.