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

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

This bread mold experiment will help your child learn about mold, and he'll develop important hypothesis-making and experiment-designing skills.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

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!

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

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

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.

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

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

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

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.

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!

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!

Satisfy your kindergartener's fascination of different sounds with this easy science project, where they'll use their ears instead of their eyes to identify sounds!

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

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

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

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!

Invite your third grader to do taste test science to observe how a strawberry tastes when it is paired with various condiments. The results may be surprising!