Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

Make an adorable nut buddy by crafting nature people out of nuts in shells! Buddies will take on their own personalities depending on the materials you use.

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

This easy project for little hands uses mushroom spores to make an imprint of the mushroom, and the result is very beautiful.

After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants, and they may even develop a green thumb in the process!

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

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

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

In this science fair project, young children will become aware of and have the opportunity to experience the four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

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:

Can't make it to the beach? Bring the science of ocean waves home with this fun earth science-related craft.

With some cookie dough and ordinary household objects, let your kindergartener explore how fossil imprints are made.

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.

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!

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

Use dirt and different colors of craft sand to make unique layers in a clear plastic cup to represent the layers of the Earth.

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

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

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.

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

Have your kid build an ice sculpture in this activity that's so fast, fun, and messy it's the perfect way to demonstrate how much fun experiments can be!

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

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

Show your preschooler how to create a simple windsock using a colorful piece of tissue paper, a pipe cleaner, and yarn.

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.

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

Wreath ornaments decorate your Christmas tree and act as a fun sensory craft for preschoolers. Make wreath ornaments with your child this holiday season.