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

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the preschool curriculum. Put a fun twist on this science concept with these cup pets.

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

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

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

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.

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

Who knew that you could make beads out of rose petals? Not only can it be done, but the beads smell wonderful!

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

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Make frog feet sponge prints with your child for a fun and educational crafts activity.

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

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