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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

Your fourth grader will be astonished to discover the significance and intricacies of his spine as he builds a model of a human vertebral column.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

How can you tell the difference between a spider and an insect? Your child will find out as he makes a tray of yummy creepy crawly snacks.

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

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

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

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.

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.

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

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

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

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.

Looking for a fun way to encourage imaginative play? Try crafting these animal dice with your preschooler.

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 two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.

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

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.