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Your child will enjoy getting math practice as they use bugs in addition and subtraction problems.

Create a world of bugs with your kid! This variation on finger painting is a great project to create after a trip to the zoo or while learning about science.

Your child can explore color mixing and design while folding together a paint-filled paper and then using a marker to outline it.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

Use egg cartons to create imaginative spiders the kids will treasure.

Make caterpillars out of papier-mache and let the kids explore their inner creepy crawler.

There are many benefits to bugs and insects. This science project shows how cockroaches, termites, and other critters benefit our planet.

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

Wonder why bugs always fly around your lights at night? This experiment determines whether insects are attracted to the heat or the light.

Do you have your isopods straight? Learn about sow bug and pill bug behavior by building a terrarium to study them in!

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

Boys might wrinkle their noses at the thought of gardening, but we guarantee they'll like this activity! Make a recycled terrarium full of bug-eating plants.

Celebrate spring with a cute cut-out bug button your child can make out of colorful felt and markers!

Can you plant the insect-attracting borage plant to increase the amount of beneficial insects in your garden? Find out in this experiment!

Light up your home with this lightning bug craft that will keep glowing even after summer's gone!

Cinnamon is tasty, but does it have super powers as well? Find out if cinnamon can repel mosquitoes in this outdoorsy experiment.

Make a special card with a surprise that jumps out! Simple and inexpensive, it's a snap for little hands to make.

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

Have you ever seen fruit decay? Find out if a fruit will rot faster if you open it versus leaving it untouched!

What is surface tension? Kids will discover how water-skating insects use surface tension to keep from sinking by making a model water walker.

This activity is a creative and fun way to boosts a child's motor skills while giving her a lasting toy.

Valentine's Day is a great day to show loved ones how much you appreciate them, and this love bug craft is an adorably simple way to spread the love.

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

Help your budding artist construct this paper chain caterpillar craft, inspired by the intelligent bug from "Alice in Wonderland."

Mobiles make fun art projects for creative kids. Help your child bend simple pipe cleaners into bug shapes as diverse as the creepy crawlies that inspired them.

This marshmallow snowman craft is a festive way for your child to practice counting and art. Make a marshmallow snowman with your child this holiday season.

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

Wiggly worms are known for staying buried in the soil, but how does that affect plants? Are earthworms and plant growth related?