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!

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.

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!

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

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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!

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

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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

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.

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

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.