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

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

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

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

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

Instead of the traditional egg hunt, try this creative variation that will result in a beautiful Easter garden.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

It's easy to plant your own in-home container garden! This planter contains pizza-themed herbs and is a perfect early gardening activity for kindergarteners.

Help your child plant a "tea garden": a garden made of herbs for making teas.

This activity is a great way to teach kids that, to find examples of science in action, they donât need to look any further than their own backyard.

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

Grow potatoes in a plastic bag—easy to grow and harvest, and yummy to eat!

This science fair project idea explores plant growth from a bulb, root, and a stem and investigates asexual plant reproduction.

Explore aromas with your child and help boost her brain power with some fun and interactive science activities.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

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

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

In this experiment, kids will see if pruning tomato plants makes them more fruitful and learn about the factors that contribute to a plant's fruit production.

Learn about the effect of artificial light on plant growth versus natural sunlight and delve into some biology and botany concepts in this science project.

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

Students explore hot desert plant adaptations in this cool science fair project by observing how these organisms prevent excessive transpiration.

This science fair project idea highlights decomposition rates by comparing how long it takes an item to decompose in a compost pile vs. a landfill.