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

The rock cycle will come alive for your child when he uses broken crayons to create the three basic rock types.

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

Wool can absorb 1/3 of its weight in water, while still keeping the body warm. She can test this theory by performing a scientific sock comparison!

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!

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

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

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.

When you cut a flower to put into a vase, it'll eventually wilt, even with water and sunshine. But is there another scientific secret to keeping flowers fresh?

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.

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.

Is it a square or a circle? See if you can trick your friends with this zany science project!

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

These science fair experiments demonstrate the chemistry of rust and the oxidation process.

Plants and light seem to be good buddies, but how far does the friendship really go?

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

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

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?