When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

Satisfy your kindergartener's fascination of different sounds with this easy science project, where they'll use their ears instead of their eyes to identify sounds!

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

This preschool activity uses paint chips to help your child learn about different shades of colors and how to find different colors in nature.

This simple project makes young children aware of their sense of smell and its capacity for providing them with information about their world.

This simple activity is not only fun, it's also a useful way to organize children's closets — and offer kids some autonomy to boot.

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

This play-activity causes young children to focus on and become more aware of their sense of hearing and the power of their ears.

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

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

This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

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

This super fun science project, perfect for young children, combines crafts, dressing up as animals, outdoor play, and life science learning.

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

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Follow in the footsteps of movie character legends as you walk your little one through the steps of becoming a junior archaeologist.

How much water comes out of snow? Explore this timely question with your kindergarten scientist with this easy winter experiment.

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

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

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

Summer is a great time to work on pre-kindergarten skills that will serve your child well in her first year at school, while having some fun in the sun!

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

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.

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

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.