Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

This easy project for little hands uses mushroom spores to make an imprint of the mushroom, and the result is very beautiful.

In this fun guessing game, your child uses his sense of smell and taste to figure out what is in the container. Here's how to play:

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

Alive or not? This yeast experiment you can conduct with your little scientist explores the answer to this timeless question.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

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.

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

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

It's easy to plant your own in-home container garden! This planter contains pizza-themed herbs and is a perfect early gardening activity for kindergarteners.

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

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

Help your child build her very own science laboratory at home for experiments and science projects. This is a quick, easy, and fun educational tool!