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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!

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

What's the science behind those out-of-sight roots? Find out if you can trick roots into growing in different directions.

What is surface tension? Kids will discover how water-skating insects use surface tension to keep from sinking by making a model water walker.

This kindergarten science activity will help her explore the changing states of matter which transform an egg from raw to soft to hard-boiled.

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!

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

Bring the magic and mystery of the night sky to the light of day with this fun constellation art project!

The weather is a key kindergarten science concept. With this activity your child will learn about wind direction and create a self portrait, too!

Checkerboard play challenges students to use spatial reasoning and computational thinking.

Let your second grader pay homage to an ancient Olympic tradition with this modern day Olympic wreath!

Word color association is just a fancy way to talk about the way we connect colors with words.

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.

Help your second grader observe the phases of the moon, and then let the fun loose: he'll get to chart his observations with marshmallows!

Create your own cloud with an activity that will explain how important concepts such as evaporation, condensation, and precipitation work.

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

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

What's a crater, and how does it happen? Here's a kindergarten experiment with safe, nontoxic ingredients.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Make all-natural dye from vegetables to create gorgeous homemade play-silks!

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

Your kindergartener will have a blast helping you craft these fun, eco-friendly potted place cards.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.

Do earthworms like moisture or darkness? Find out as we explore the relationship between earthworms and light.

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.