This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

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

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!

Set up a fun guessing game for your curious kindergartener, one that will test her ability to use all five of her senses.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

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

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

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

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

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

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Satisfy your kindergartener's fascination of different sounds with this easy science project, where they'll use their ears instead of their eyes to identify sounds!

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

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.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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

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

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:

In this activity, your child will learn about a style of gardening that uses moss, also called "kokedama."

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

Experiment about connection of senses of taste and smell. Using blindfold and noseplugs, administer blind taste test. Analyze results and organize data.

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.

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.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.