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!

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!

When the wind starts blowing, you and your child can plant a sponge garden in the comfort of your own kitchen. Here's how:

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.

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

How can you tell the difference between a spider and an insect? Your child will find out as he makes a tray of yummy creepy crawly snacks.

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

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

If you find yourself with a pair of kids' rain boots too cute to toss and too worn to wear, try making this fun and easy planter.

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.

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

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!

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.

Help your child hunt and capture bugs to observe to practice important science skills and satisfy her curiosity simultaneously!

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

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

In the mood for a bit of silly science? Help your child create a truly one-of-a-kind planter out of a potato head!

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.

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

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!

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

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!

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations

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.

Looking for a fun way to encourage imaginative play? Try crafting these animal dice with your preschooler.