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.

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.

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!

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

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

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

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

Aquariums are usually reserved for fish, but this aquarium will contain creatures from your child's imagination!

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

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!

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

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

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