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

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.

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.

Brine shrimp usually live in saltwater. Investigate how salt concentration (salinity) affects the rate at which brine shrimp eggs hatch.

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

Have your child build a model of a coral polyp, one of the tiny animals that composes a coral reef.

This science fair project idea demonstrates that plants give off water.

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

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!

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

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

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

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