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

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.

Would it hurt to skip brushing your teeth just this once? Let's find out by seeing which foods produce the most mouth bacteria.

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

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

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

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

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

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

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.

This taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Bring a little science to your third grader's Christmas as you test out his sense of smell by exposing him to common Christmas scents found in your kitchen.

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

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

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

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

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.

Learn about the fruit fly life cycle in this experiment. Capture fruit flies to examine various stages of insect metamorphosis.

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

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

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!

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.