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This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

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.

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

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

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!

Ignite your kindergartener's love of adventure and learning with an imaginary trip under the sea.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

How can you tell the difference between a spider and an insect? Your child will find out as he makes a tray of yummy creepy crawly snacks.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

In this science fair project, young children will become aware of and have the opportunity to experience the four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Looking for a fun way to encourage imaginative play? Try crafting these animal dice with your preschooler.

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

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!

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!