This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

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

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

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!

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

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

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

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?

Give your science savvy kindergarten a lesson in plant science with this fun carnation experiment.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

If you find yourself with a pair of kids' rain boots too cute to toss and too worn to wear, try making this fun and easy planter.

Give your child a chance to experiment with how things grow. And throw in something extra to up the fun factor even more...her very own grass pet!

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!

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.

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

Set up a fun guessing game for your curious kindergartener, one that will test her ability to use all five of her senses.

Help your child hunt and capture bugs to observe to practice important science skills and satisfy her curiosity simultaneously!

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Help your child build her very own science laboratory at home for experiments and science projects. This is a quick, easy, and fun educational tool!

Hold a magnet marathon! Explore the power of magnets with your kindergartener in this entertaining and simple science game.

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

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.

Make this easy composting dessert and then enjoy the yummy results!

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Looking for a fun way to encourage imaginative play? Try crafting these animal dice with your preschooler.

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!