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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 season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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!

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

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

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

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

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

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.

Your fourth grader will be astonished to discover the significance and intricacies of his spine as he builds a model of a human vertebral column.

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

What is the best stain remover for clothes? In this fun and easy science fair project idea, students will identify the best method for laundry stain removal.

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.

With this science fair idea, little scientists will gain valuable insights into the physics behind throwing a baseball.