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.

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.

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

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

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

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

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

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

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

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

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

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

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

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

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.

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

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.

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