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

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!

Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

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

In this activity your child will make a coiling snake out of simple household materials, and also find out why they coil.

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.

Kids will conduct a cool limewater carbon dioxide test that can be performed with common household materials to learn about the chemistry of this common gas.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Have your child build a model of a coral polyp, one of the tiny animals that composes a coral reef.

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

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.

Recycling may be a confusing concept for your little one, so take the time to teach them the magic of compost - right in your own backyard!

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.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

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!

Ignite your kindergartener's love of adventure and learning with an imaginary trip under the sea.

This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

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!

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

This science fair project idea experiments with spinning color wheels and optical illusions.

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

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

In this plastic wrap science fair project, you'll learn about polymer permeability and find out which plastic wrap keeps food from dehydrating best.

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

Come take off your shoes and explore with your feet. Your child will embark on a barefoot adventure as he plays with different textures.

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!

In this science fair projects, students will grow out the bacteria that collect on air conditioner filters.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Science fair project that compares the biodiversity of fungi in different ecosystems by identifying species of fungi.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.