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Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

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.

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 activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

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

Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

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

Make a periscope with milk cartons and mirrors! This preschool activity is great for playing secret agent and learning simple physics.

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

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!

Here's a simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.

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.

Who says snow globes are just for winter? Help your child create a summer version with this fun art project!

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

Using plants and other items from the outdoors and clothing they already own, your kids can dress up as any one of the four seasons or simply as a Garden.

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.

Who knew that nature could get so crafty? Show your kindergartener how to collect and morph pinecones into a whole team of personalized pinecone people.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

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

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.

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

Help your little one figure out the differences between the worlds of air, land and water, a huge step in understanding how our environment works.

In this science fair project, young children discover what happens when two fluids that have different densities get together.

Show your preschooler how to construct this very special planter for Mom. It makes a great pick-me-up, and it's easy for kids to make in a flash!

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 make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

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

Kids will learn how to clean fish tank the natural way. Add catfish to the tank and see if your water gets cleaner.