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Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

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 math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

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!

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

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

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

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

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

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

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

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

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.

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 project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Use sticks and stones to create create an outdoor version of tic-tac-toe!

Give your science savvy kindergarten a lesson in plant science with this fun carnation experiment.

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:

After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants, and they may even develop a green thumb in the process!

This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.

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!

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

Can you fool your eyes and your brain with an optical illusion? The purpose of this science fair project is to demonstrate various kinds of optical illusions.

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 plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

Can't make it to the beach? Bring the science of ocean waves home with this fun earth science-related craft.

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