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!

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

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

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

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!

This science fair project idea identifies and understands adaptations in birds.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Boys might wrinkle their noses at the thought of gardening, but we guarantee they'll like this activity! Make a recycled terrarium full of bug-eating plants.

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

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!

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!

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

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!

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

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:

Help your child learn about animal classification with this fun and delicious activity.

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

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

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.

Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

Here's an arts and crafts guide for your high-school teenager that'll help her create a naturalist drawing and painting.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

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