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Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

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!

This project makes young children uniquely aware of their sense of touch and its ability to alone give them information about the world around them.

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

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

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

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!

Here's a simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

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

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

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.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

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

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!

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

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

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

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

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

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

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!

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

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

In this kindergarten activity your child will create a map of your house and use a magnet to move pictures of your family through the house!