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

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

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

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.

The pinwheel is a simple toy that has been around for years and uses the wonders of the wind to spin it and delight kids of all ages!

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

Turn an abstract lesson into a practical craft with the fun and colorful creation of dough earth layers!

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Who needs paint, glitter, or crayons when you have natural art supplies right outside your front door?

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

Inspire your child to put on her engineer hat for the day, as she builds her very own, double-decker bridge.

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.

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

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

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.

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.