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

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

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

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

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 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!

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

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.

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.

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!

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

Help your child create a tasty treat that will demonstrate exactly how frogs survive a freezing season.

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

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

Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

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

What is the best stain remover for clothes? In this fun and easy science fair project idea, students will identify the best method for laundry stain removal.

Explore aromas with your child and help boost her brain power with some fun and interactive science activities.

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.

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.

Cherries usually burst with flavor, but in this science experiment they burst with osmotic pressure. This science activity will blow your curious kid's mind!

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!

In this activity, your child will learn about a style of gardening that uses moss, also called "kokedama."

In this science fair projects, students will grow out the bacteria that collect on air conditioner filters.

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

Grow potatoes in a plastic bag—easy to grow and harvest, and yummy to eat!

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

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

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!