This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

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

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

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

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!

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

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!

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 fourth grader will be astonished to discover the significance and intricacies of his spine as he builds a model of a human vertebral column.

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

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.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

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.

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 create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

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

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

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

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

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

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.