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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.

Sink or swim? Calculate the density of various fruits and vegetables using water and a kitchen scale.

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!

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

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

In this activity your child will make a coiling snake out of simple household materials, and also find out why they coil.

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!

This activity will introduce your child to the four different components of blood and give him a fun way to visualize its properties.

With this hands-on activity, you'll show how fall colors are hidden in the leaf all year long!

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.

In this game, players will learn interesting facts about animal adaption and practice them using a fun matching card game!

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!

Kids conduct a simple birdseed experiment to figure out what kinds of birds live nearby in this fun science activity.

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

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!