Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

Hatch a praying mantis egg case in a homemade habitat with your child's help! This is an amazing experiment in science and nature for kids of any age.

Brine shrimp usually live in saltwater. Investigate how salt concentration (salinity) affects the rate at which brine shrimp eggs hatch.

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!

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Grow potatoes in a plastic bag—easy to grow and harvest, and yummy to eat!

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

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.

Travel back to the Jurassic age with this creative dinosaur activity that would make a great addition to any wall or fridge.

Explore aromas with your child and help boost her brain power with some fun and interactive science activities.

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

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.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

Help your child create a tasty treat that will demonstrate exactly how frogs survive a freezing season.

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

Who knew that you could make beads out of rose petals? Not only can it be done, but the beads smell wonderful!

This activity will introduce your child to the four different components of blood and give him a fun way to visualize its properties.

In this activity, your child will learn about a style of gardening that uses moss, also called "kokedama."

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

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.

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

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!

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!