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

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

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!

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hatch a praying mantis egg case in a homemade habitat with your child's help! This is an amazing experiment in science and nature for kids of any age.

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

Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

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

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!

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Cherries usually burst with flavor, but in this science experiment they burst with osmotic pressure. This science activity will blow your curious kid's mind!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.