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.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

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.

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

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

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

In this fun guessing game, your child uses his sense of smell and taste to figure out what is in the container. Here's how to play:

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

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!

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

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

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

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

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!

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.