Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

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

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.

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

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

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

Help your young learner discover why the insects that a spider eats stick to its web but the spider doesn't.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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!

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

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

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

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!

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 great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

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

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

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.

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

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

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

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

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!

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

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