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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.

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

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!

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:

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

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.

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?

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

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 project makes young children uniquely aware of their sense of touch and its ability to alone give them information about the world around them.

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.

In this science fair project, young children notice and track changes in trees throughout the year.

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.

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

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

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

Help your kindergarten scientist discover relative size, density, and buoyancy with this fun, pumpkin science project!

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

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

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

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.