Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

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

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

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!

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.

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

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!

This taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.

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

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

Show your fourth grader how to see her heart in action. Make a simple device out of a drinking straw and clay to help her spot the movement of her pulse!

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

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

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.

Invite your third grader to do taste test science to observe how a strawberry tastes when it is paired with various condiments. The results may be surprising!

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

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.

This bread mold experiment will help your child learn about mold, and he'll develop important hypothesis-making and experiment-designing skills.

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