Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

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

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

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

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!

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

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Kids grow sunflower greens from seeds for a hands-on gardening experience in this kindergarten life science activity.

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

This easy project for little hands uses mushroom spores to make an imprint of the mushroom, and the result is very beautiful.

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

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!

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!

Recycling may be a confusing concept for your little one, so take the time to teach them the magic of compost - right in your own backyard!

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.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

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).

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

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.

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.

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.

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

This simple project makes young children aware of their sense of smell and its capacity for providing them with information about their world.

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.

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

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.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

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.

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

In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!