You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

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

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

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

This fun and crafty activity is easy enough for your child to lend a helping hand and makes a great indoor or outdoor game.

Science fair project that examines the physical features of elephants and butterflies and draws conclusions about their similarities.

Determine whether butterflies like to drink sugar water, salt water, or plain water.

This science fair project studies which color(s) of flowers butterflies & bees are attracted to and if color plays a role in flower selection for pollination.

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

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

Kids build a rainforest food web to explore trophic levels in this cool science fair project for 4th grade.

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

Trick your eye with this easy-to-make animation flip book! It's a fun way to learn about persistence of vision and is creative enough to entertain anyone.

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

Help your little one figure out the differences between the worlds of air, land and water, a huge step in understanding how our environment works.

Demonstrate that insects observe colors and choose favorites. Place colored pieces of construction paper on a flat, glassy surface, observe bug preference.

This quick and simple preschool mirror activity will introduce your child to the science of reflection and light with a flashlight experiment and picture game.

This experiment strives to determine if tracking of conservation habits will lead to reductions in a family's electricity and water bills.

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

Help your child build her very own science laboratory at home for experiments and science projects. This is a quick, easy, and fun educational tool!

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.