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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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Which do you prefer: real or artificial? Try this sweet little taste experiment to help your kids develop a better awareness of the food they consume.

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.