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

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 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 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:

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.

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

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

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!

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

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?

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!

Create your very own scented hand sanitizer that will help your child to keep those nasty germs at bay!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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: