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Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

Your preschooler will engage their senses by making a scented pumpkin to decorate your house.

Show your preschooler how to create a simple windsock using a colorful piece of tissue paper, a pipe cleaner, and yarn.

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

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.

This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.

Give your science savvy kindergarten a lesson in plant science with this fun carnation experiment.

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!

Summer is a great time to work on pre-kindergarten skills that will serve your child well in her first year at school, while having some fun in the sun!

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!

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

Hold a magnet marathon! Explore the power of magnets with your kindergartener in this entertaining and simple science game.

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

Help your preschooler craft a homemade wind spinning device--a surefire to make your backyard sparkle, and teach her a bit about weather!

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

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

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!

Here's a simple science activity that will help your child better understand how wells bring us water.

This science fair project idea teaches that time always passes at the same rate and nothing we do in our daily life âreallyâ affects how fast it moves.

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

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.

Put those fall leaves to use with this fun art activity. Kids paint and print leaves, to make a beautiful tablecloth, perfect for your next fall celebration.

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

Use sticks and stones to create create an outdoor version of tic-tac-toe!

This quick and simple preschool mirror activity will introduce your child to the science of reflection and light with a flashlight experiment and picture game.

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

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

Show your preschooler how to construct this very special planter for Mom. It makes a great pick-me-up, and it's easy for kids to make in a flash!

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!