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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!

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

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

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

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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