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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

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

This activity is a great way to teach kids that, to find examples of science in action, they donât need to look any further than their own backyard.

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

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

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

Invite your third grader to do taste test science to observe how a strawberry tastes when it is paired with various condiments. The results may be surprising!

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bring a little science to your third grader's Christmas as you test out his sense of smell by exposing him to common Christmas scents found in your kitchen.

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.

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!

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

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

Your child can help your family pet take a breather, and help herself relax, too, with this soothing activity.

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

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.