Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

This crafty activity provides a hands-on way for your child to illustrate how the trees look during each season of the year.

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

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

Use sticks and stones to create create an outdoor version of tic-tac-toe!

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.

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?

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

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!

This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

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.

In this science fair project, we'll explore how blocking the sun's light can stop those can stop photosensitive paper from changing color.

This quick and simple preschool mirror activity will introduce your child to the science of reflection and light with a flashlight experiment and picture game.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

Help your kindergarten scientist explore an important part of earth science: how soil retains water.

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.

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

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

This is a quick, easy science fair project that conveys the idea of density to preschool and early elementary children.

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

How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

Help your preschooler craft a homemade wind spinning device--a surefire to make your backyard sparkle, and teach her a bit about weather!

Brighten up your home with this fun activity! Make a summer sun print and teach your child the art of easy print making.

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.