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

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

Is our water polluted? Help your young scientist understand the importance of taking care of the environment with this simple experiment.

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

How do we know that air exists when we can't see it, taste it, or touch it? Here's a classic experiment that will teach your kid some basics of aerodynamics!

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

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.

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

This project leads to an understanding that a whole may be built of smaller parts that fit and work together and provides an introduction to basic tools.

If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.

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.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!

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 science experiment has students test whether a snail moves faster on concrete or dirt.

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

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

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

The objective of this science project is to determine the length of time for different seeds to germinate.

This science fair project idea determines which method of hand cleansing is the most effective.

This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.

Take this "paper plate snack test" with your child for a hands-on lesson in making healthier choices to teach your child about what's in his food.