This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

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.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

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!

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

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

Pair a planetarium visit with this fun art project that mimics the look of far-off galaxies.

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.

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

It's easier than you think to make homemade play dough -- just a few pantry staples makes a natural version of the toy that kids have loved for generations.

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.

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.

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

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Have your child make a special mobile inspired by the weather outside. Learn about seasons, the environment, and art in 3D.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

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.

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

Make an adorable nut buddy by crafting nature people out of nuts in shells! Buddies will take on their own personalities depending on the materials you use.