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

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

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

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.

In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!

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.

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:

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

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.

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

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!

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

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

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.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

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

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

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!

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

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!

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

This easy project for little hands uses mushroom spores to make an imprint of the mushroom, and the result is very beautiful.

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

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Inspire your child to learn about an amazing animal as she creates her very own polar bear habitat.

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

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

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