Spiders don't go to grocery stores or fast food chains to get their food -- they set up traps and wait for their food to come to them!

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!

It's not actually that hard to get energy from garbage! Kids learn how to make biogas in the form of methane with this cool and easy science fair project idea.

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.

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

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

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.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

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

This trick uses vertical and horizontal forces to help your child to push apart your hands apart, no matter how hard you try to keep them together!

Help your kid feel like a superhero with this safe and fun science experiment that creates an electrical charge that's like a mini lightning bolt!

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

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

I scream, you scream, we all scream for homemade spearmint ice cream!

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.

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

Put those fall leaves to use with this fun art activity. Kids paint and print leaves, to make a beautiful tablecloth, perfect for your next fall celebration.

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

Enter the buzz worthy world of bee watching and find out what time bees like to wake up!

Here's a science activity that lets a first grader use an empty dish detergent bottle to create his own fountain as he explores air pressure.

Future engineers, unite! Discover how to keep a sandcastleâs bridge from falling into the moat.

In this science fair project, students make their own rain gauge to measure rainfall.

In this pinto bean germination experiment, you'll learn about how fertilizer aids in growing pinto beans into seedlings.

What's cooler than an explosion? Not much! This simple science experiment lets kids build their own pop rocket. So put on your safety goggles and let her rip.

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

Discover how and which salt melts ice the quickest.

Let your young scientist explore a brave new world of sound with an experiment that just requires a handful of common household items.

Children combine an acid and an alkaline substance to simulate a volcano eruption in this fun experiment.

In this science fair project, you'll make a "ghost" appear in a test tube, and learn about what happens when hot water and cold water interact.