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!

In this design challenge, your child will use building bricks to create a funny face. The activity instructions include question prompts thta can help guide your child through the creative process, and promote their problem-solving skills.

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

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.

Kids grow sunflower greens from seeds for a hands-on gardening experience in this kindergarten life science activity.

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!

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.

Think you can blow up a balloon without using your mouth? This isn't just a cool trick, it's also a great way to introduce chemistry and biology concepts.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

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

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

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

Your preschooler is familiar with the colors in their crayon box, but can they find these colors in the world? Take them on a scavenger hunt to find out!

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

Blanket forts are a kid classic! Let your child create a âfortress of solitudeâ on his own for reading, telling scary stories or for cozy cocooning.

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

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

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.

It's easy to plant your own in-home container garden! This planter contains pizza-themed herbs and is a perfect early gardening activity for kindergarteners.

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

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