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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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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.