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Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

Science fair project that compares the biodiversity of fungi in different ecosystems by identifying species of fungi.

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!

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.

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 design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

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

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.

Want to help make studying the nervous system a little more fun? This thinking cap is a great way to learn external human brain anatomy.

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

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!

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Here's a simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

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

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

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

Experiment about connection of senses of taste and smell. Using blindfold and noseplugs, administer blind taste test. Analyze results and organize data.

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

Explore aromas with your child and help boost her brain power with some fun and interactive science activities.