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.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

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

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

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!

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

If you find yourself with a pair of kids' rain boots too cute to toss and too worn to wear, try making this fun and easy planter.

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

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.

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

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!

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!

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

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

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.

Help children understand the power of germs and the importance of hand washing with this visual activity that introduces the concept of scientific inquiry.

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

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

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!

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

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

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.

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!

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

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

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

In the mood for a bit of silly science? Help your child create a truly one-of-a-kind planter out of a potato head!

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!