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.

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!

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

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

Wreath ornaments decorate your Christmas tree and act as a fun sensory craft for preschoolers. Make wreath ornaments with your child this holiday season.

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

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

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

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

Help children understand the power of germs and the importance of hand washing with this visual activity that introduces the concept of scientific inquiry.

In this project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables

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

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

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

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

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

Your preschooler can learn how to siphon water with just two bottles and a plastic tube in this fun, educational science activity.

Tin can phones offer something modern versions don't—a fun project to make with a friend, and a dramatic illustration of vibration and sound waves.

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

Make homemade lemonade in a baggie with your preschooler with this fun and easy recipe.

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

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

In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how:

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!

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:

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

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