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

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

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?

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

How much water comes out of snow? Explore this timely question with your kindergarten scientist with this easy winter experiment.

This activity is a fun way to "go fishing" with your preschooler, while learning about the concepts of freezing and melting.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Find out whether we can create motion in a dish and as a result, create a wonderful and colorful show.

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

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:

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

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

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 project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables

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.

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.

This experiment challenges students to forecast the weather based on the surrounding areas' weather.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

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.

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.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.