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.

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!

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

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

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

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.

Your child can help your family pet take a breather, and help herself relax, too, with this soothing activity.

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!

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.

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

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

Grow potatoes in a plastic bag—easy to grow and harvest, and yummy to eat!

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

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.