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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.

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

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

This science fair project idea experiments with spinning color wheels and optical illusions.

Grow potatoes in a plastic bag—easy to grow and harvest, and yummy to eat!

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.

Have your child build a model of a coral polyp, one of the tiny animals that composes a coral reef.

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.

This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

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

Show your fourth grader how to see her heart in action. Make a simple device out of a drinking straw and clay to help her spot the movement of her pulse!

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.