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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.

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.

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

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

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!

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:

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

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

In this science project, young children observe, record, and create collections of colors in their world and increase their powers of observation.

In this science fair project, young children observe, record, and create collections of shapes in their world and increase their powers of observation.

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.

In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!

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.

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

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

Get ready for a yummy taste test! Just pour the milk -- and make sure you have some chocolate chip cookies on hand.

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

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

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?

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 science fair project, we'll explore how blocking the sun's light can stop those can stop photosensitive paper from changing color.

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!

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!

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.

This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.