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.

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

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

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!

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

Try hammering some plants with your kids to teach them a valuable lesson in flower science while making beautiful artwork in the process!

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!

Sink or swim? Calculate the density of various fruits and vegetables using water and a kitchen scale.