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.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

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

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

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

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.

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

How do mirrors work? What is light, and how does it travel? Explore light and reflection with your preschooler with these simple hands-on experiments.

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

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

This quick and simple preschool mirror activity will introduce your child to the science of reflection and light with a flashlight experiment and picture game.

The weather is a key kindergarten science concept. With this activity your child will learn about wind direction and create a self portrait, too!

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

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

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

Help your kindergarten scientist explore an important part of earth science: how soil retains water.

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

This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

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

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.