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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!

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

This science fair project idea produces sounds by creating vibrations using different objects.

This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

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

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

This science fair project idea investigates the hardness property of minerals.

Use chemical analysis to identify a variety of mystery powders that look the same but actually have very different properties.

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!

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!

In this popcorn experiment, students can explore how two things made out of the same material can have very different appearances and densities.

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

In this science fair project, kids measure how weather conditions affect how fast a puddle evaporates.

Help your second grader observe the phases of the moon, and then let the fun loose: he'll get to chart his observations with marshmallows!

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

Create your very own scented hand sanitizer that will help your child to keep those nasty germs at bay!

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

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

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

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

In this fun guessing game, your child uses his sense of smell and taste to figure out what is in the container. Here's how to play: