Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

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

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

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

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

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

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

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.

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

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

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

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

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

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

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).

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

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

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

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

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.

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.

This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

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.

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

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.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.