Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

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.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!

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

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.

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

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

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

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

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

Show your fourth grader how to see her heart in action. Make a simple device out of a drinking straw and clay to help her spot the movement of her pulse!

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

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

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

Cherries usually burst with flavor, but in this science experiment they burst with osmotic pressure. This science activity will blow your curious kid's mind!

Hatch a praying mantis egg case in a homemade habitat with your child's help! This is an amazing experiment in science and nature for kids of any age.

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

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.

Would it hurt to skip brushing your teeth just this once? Let's find out by seeing which foods produce the most mouth bacteria.

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.

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

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 your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

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

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

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.