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!

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

Who knew that you could make beads out of rose petals? Not only can it be done, but the beads smell wonderful!

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

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!

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

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

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

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

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

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

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

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.

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

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