By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

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

Create your very own scented hand sanitizer that will help your child to keep those nasty germs at bay!

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

In this science project, young children observe, record, and create collections of colors in their world and increase their powers of observation.

Stamp out the sameness of learning the ABC's for your kindergartener. Make 26 letter sponge stamps and create projects with him to practice.

In this science fair project, young children observe, record, and create collections of shapes in their world and increase their powers of observation.

This imaginative art activity will help your child to better understand symmetry and explore color and shape.

Play this flashlight game with your child to teach him about objects that are transparent, translucent, and opaque.

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.

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

In this science fair project, kids observe the expansion of liquids when frozen and determine if some liquids expand more than others in the freezing process.

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.

Preschoolers get a hands-on lesson about the color wheel in this St. Patrick's Day exploratory painting activity.

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

Help your child explore their imagination and self-image with a larger-than-life-size self-portrait!

Boost your child's early literacy skills and create alphabet tiles she can play and practice with - great reinforcement for ABC's, phonics and writing!

Add a little island flavor to your next lazy afternoon with a Hawaiian arts and craft project!

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

Looking for a funky new way to paint? Try paint dough, a sparkling pasty paint made from just three kitchen ingredients!

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

Looking for a last minute gift? This homemade candle holder is a breeze to make, and its pretty glow really brightens up a room. A great craft project.

Your kindergartener can contribute these beaded napkin rings to your Thanksgiving table...and sneak in some good math patterning practice, too.

In this experiment, students will create their own version of coquina, a sedimentary rock thatâs formed by seashells and sand, cemented by seawater minerals.