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

This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

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.

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.

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

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

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!

Help your child learn about animal classification with this fun and delicious activity.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

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.

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

This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

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.

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

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.

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

This fun and easy middle school science fair project idea explores the topic of pollution and demonstrates if polluted soil affect the growth of green plants.

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

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

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.

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

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

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

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

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

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

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

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.