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

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

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

Inspire your child to learn about an amazing animal as she creates her very own polar bear habitat.

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

In this plastic wrap science fair project, you'll learn about polymer permeability and find out which plastic wrap keeps food from dehydrating best.

Kids will conduct a cool limewater carbon dioxide test that can be performed with common household materials to learn about the chemistry of this common gas.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

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.

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.

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

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!

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

Come take off your shoes and explore with your feet. Your child will embark on a barefoot adventure as he plays with different textures.

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!

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

Incorporate some math and science thinking into your annual fall fun with this pumpkin investigation activity! Your child will have a blast investigating various ways of measuring pumpkins, making estimates, taking measurements, and recording their findin

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

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

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

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

Who knew that you could make beads out of rose petals? Not only can it be done, but the beads smell wonderful!

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

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

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!

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!