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.

Your child can help your family pet take a breather, and help herself relax, too, with this soothing activity.

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

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

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!

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!

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!

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

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.

Brine shrimp usually live in saltwater. Investigate how salt concentration (salinity) affects the rate at which brine shrimp eggs hatch.

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

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

Have your child build a model of a coral polyp, one of the tiny animals that composes a coral reef.

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

Aquariums are usually reserved for fish, but this aquarium will contain creatures from your child's imagination!

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

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