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Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

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!

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 project makes young children uniquely aware of their sense of touch and its ability to alone give them information about the world around them.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

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.

In this activity, your child will learn about a style of gardening that uses moss, also called "kokedama."

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

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

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.

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

Here's a simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.

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

This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

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

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!

This simple project makes young children aware of their sense of smell and its capacity for providing them with information about their world.

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

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

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