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.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

Develop your child's mathematical and engineering skills with this fun building brick challenge. In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create a boat out of building bricks.

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

This activity is a great way to stretch the boundaries of your child's imagination and build up important critical thinking skills.

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.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

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

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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.

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

Hone your child's skills of observation and take a look at forensic science for an interesting afternoon of exploration and detective work!

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

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

Your 1st grade scientist will improve her observation skills as she's encouraged to eat healthy by comparing the dry and fresh fruit in this experiment.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

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

Play Rock Tic-Tac-Toe, the perfect outdoor game for all ages. Help your child develop thinking skills and get away from the TV!

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.