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

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

Invite your third grader to do taste test science to observe how a strawberry tastes when it is paired with various condiments. The results may be surprising!

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.

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Inspire your child to learn about an amazing animal as she creates her very own polar bear habitat.

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

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

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

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

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

Use simple materials to build a "worm hotel" with your kindergarten soil scientist...and see what worms really do all day.

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

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

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

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

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

In this plastic wrap science fair project, you'll learn about polymer permeability and find out which plastic wrap keeps food from dehydrating best.

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!

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants, and they may even develop a green thumb in the process!