Use simple materials to build a "worm hotel" with your kindergarten soil scientist...and see what worms really do all day.

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

Plan ahead for summer, by constructing a holiday calendar with your child. A great way to teach kids about time!

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

Let your child be the king or queen of Mardi Gras by making his own shiny and spectacular Mardi Gras crown.

Pump up the learning level of your kindergartener's summer break by playing patriotic bingo when July 4th rolls around.

Make this paper chain calendar and give your child a visual reminder of the passing of time.

Every day will be a new experience as you explore and learn about the different colors.

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

Picking words out can be tricky. In this early reading activity, your child will place letter markers on a grid to make words appear out of the jumble.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

This St. Patrick's-themed color game reinforces your kindergartener's recognition of green objects, and also gives her reading and listening skills a work out.

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

What happens when light hits a hard surface? Find out by conducting a simple light reflection experiment with your preschooler.

Do this fun activity that uses stickers to help your kindergartener with counting, basic addition, and one-to-one correspondence.

Help your child chart how much he has grown over his school break by creating his own tree-shaped Summer Growth Chart.

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

How do you spell fun and learning? B-I-N-G-O! Children learn through play. And letter or number bingo is a great place to start.

Spend an afternoon outdoors and add a personal touch to clothes or other items of fabric by learning how to tie-dye.

It can feel good to hit something when you're mad. The more your child pounds, squeezes, and mashes this dough, the better these play dough cookies will taste!

Make a bouquet of colorful duct tape flowers in this hands-on spring craft.

Celebrate President's Day with your kindergartener by building a delicious presidential snack: a banana log cabin!

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!

If you find yourself with a pair of kids' rain boots too cute to toss and too worn to wear, try making this fun and easy planter.

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.

Help your child develop his counting and language skills with this fun activity. He'll be a number hero for a day and learn about safety while he's at it.

This sweet cardstock bouquet featuring your child's photo is sure to make Mom or Grandma smile on Mother's Day or any day of the year.

Ensuring that what we say is truthful, helpful, inspiring, necessary, and kind takes practice! In this social emotional learning activity, your child will set a goal for themselves to THINK before they speak.