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Use natural materials to try out a new kind of weaving. Your child will enjoy gathering her materials outside, and then using them to create a piece of art!

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

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

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

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!

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

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

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

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.

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

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

Have your child make a special mobile inspired by the weather outside. Learn about seasons, the environment, and art in 3D.

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

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

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

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

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

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

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

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.

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

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

Did you know magnifying glasses are magic? This hands-on activity has kids using magnifying glasses to engage with the world around them and look close to examine what they find.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

This science experiment tests why guacamole goes brown and if leaving the pit in will stop guacamole from turning brown.

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

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.