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When the wind starts blowing, you and your child can plant a sponge garden in the comfort of your own kitchen. Here's how:

Recycling may be a confusing concept for your little one, so take the time to teach them the magic of compost - right in your own backyard!

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

In almost every preschool classroom is a sensory table. Learn how to make one at home!

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

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

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.

In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!

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.

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

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

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

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:

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!

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

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

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.

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!

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!

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.

Give your child a chance to experiment with how things grow. And throw in something extra to up the fun factor even more...her very own grass pet!

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.

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!

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!

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!

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!

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

Help your young learner discover why the insects that a spider eats stick to its web but the spider doesn't.

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!

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)