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Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.

Kids conduct a simple science experiment to see if seeds can grow without soil in this simple kindergarten science activity.

Discover the wonders of simple clay by pressing flowers into a modeling medium!

Introduce your child to the wonders of colorful chemistry with this simple food coloring project.

Teach your preschooler some physics that she can relate to with this fun and simple activity!

Help your kindergarten scientist understand the concept of surface tension with this simple science experiment.

Help young learners discover why catÃs eyes glow in the dark with this simple experiment

What happens when light hits a hard surface? Find out by conducting a simple light reflection experiment with your preschooler.

Show your preschooler how to create a simple windsock using a colorful piece of tissue paper, a pipe cleaner, and yarn.

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

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

Make a periscope with milk cartons and mirrors! This preschool activity is great for playing secret agent and learning simple physics.

Here's a simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

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.

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

Teach your child about using pumps to move water in this simple and educational preschool science activity!

This simple activity is not only fun, it's also a useful way to organize children's closets — and offer kids some autonomy to boot.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

Here's a simple science activity that will help your child better understand how wells bring us water.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.