Summer is a great time to work on pre-kindergarten skills that will serve your child well in her first year at school, while having some fun in the sun!

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

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

Help your little one figure out the differences between the worlds of air, land and water, a huge step in understanding how our environment works.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

In this kindergarten activity your child will create a map of your house and use a magnet to move pictures of your family through the house!

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Aquariums are usually reserved for fish, but this aquarium will contain creatures from your child's imagination!

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

The next time you and your fifth grader go on a hike, take along this key to figure out which common North American animal left a track along the river bank.

This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

In this science fair projects, students will grow out the bacteria that collect on air conditioner filters.

Grow potatoes in a plastic bag—easy to grow and harvest, and yummy to eat!

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

This activity will introduce your child to the four different components of blood and give him a fun way to visualize its properties.

Make this easy composting dessert and then enjoy the yummy results!

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

Show your fourth grader how to see her heart in action. Make a simple device out of a drinking straw and clay to help her spot the movement of her pulse!

Kids grow sunflower greens from seeds for a hands-on gardening experience in this kindergarten life science activity.

Want to help make studying the nervous system a little more fun? This thinking cap is a great way to learn external human brain anatomy.

Hold a magnet marathon! Explore the power of magnets with your kindergartener in this entertaining and simple science game.

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

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.