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

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!

Set up a fun guessing game for your curious kindergartener, one that will test her ability to use all five of her senses.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

Satisfy your kindergartener's fascination of different sounds with this easy science project, where they'll use their ears instead of their eyes to identify sounds!

This easy project for little hands uses mushroom spores to make an imprint of the mushroom, and the result is very beautiful.

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

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

Did you know magnifying glasses are magic? This hands-on activity has kids using magnifying glasses to engage with the world around them and look close to examine what they find.

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:

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.

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.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

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

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

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

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.

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

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.

In this art project, budding entomologists will create a larger than life, moveable puppet version of a praying mantis.

Help your child build her very own science laboratory at home for experiments and science projects. This is a quick, easy, and fun educational tool!

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!