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

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

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 activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

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

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

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

In this plant habitats activity, children play the role of an ecologist and take surveys of different areas to discover the best habitat for dandelions.

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.

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

This project explores the interaction between air pressure and playing surface in determining a basketballâs bounce.

Come take off your shoes and explore with your feet. Your child will embark on a barefoot adventure as he plays with different textures.

Aquariums are usually reserved for fish, but this aquarium will contain creatures from your child's imagination!

This science fair project idea studies how talking on a cell phone affect driving?

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

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

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.

This project examines who can jump higher, boys or girls, younger people or older, and how these two factors, gender and age, interact with one another.

This project explores whether the tempo of the background music we hear in a businesses is important to the environment and how customers move.

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

This project makes young children uniquely aware of their sense of touch and its ability to alone give them information about the world around them.

Give your child a chance to experiment with how things grow. And throw in something extra to up the fun factor even more...her very own grass pet!

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

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!

This project determines how much the rebound rates of tennis balls change after ten games.

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

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!

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

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!

Show your middle schooler how a quick whirl of spinach in the blender will reveal the cobwebby "stuff"--or DNA--of life!