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:

Invite your third grader to do taste test science to observe how a strawberry tastes when it is paired with various condiments. The results may be surprising!

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

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!

This taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.

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.

Help your child create a tasty treat that will demonstrate exactly how frogs survive a freezing season.

Learn about the fruit fly life cycle in this experiment. Capture fruit flies to examine various stages of insect metamorphosis.

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.

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

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

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

Your child can explore the wonders of science, and the concept of dehydration, along with creating a healthy and tasty treat!