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.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

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

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

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!

Come take off your shoes and explore with your feet. Your child will embark on a barefoot adventure as he plays with different textures.

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

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

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!

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

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.

It's easy to plant your own in-home container garden! This planter contains pizza-themed herbs and is a perfect early gardening activity for kindergarteners.

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.

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

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

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.

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

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

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

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

Help your child build her very own science laboratory at home for experiments and science projects. This is a quick, easy, and fun educational tool!

In this plastic wrap science fair project, you'll learn about polymer permeability and find out which plastic wrap keeps food from dehydrating best.

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!

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!