Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

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

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

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

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

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

Help your child hunt and capture bugs to observe to practice important science skills and satisfy her curiosity simultaneously!

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

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.

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!

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

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

Create your very own scented hand sanitizer that will help your child to keep those nasty germs at bay!

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

After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants, and they may even develop a green thumb in the process!

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

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.

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing 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.

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