Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

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

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

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

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 second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

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!

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

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.

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.