Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Kids grow sunflower greens from seeds for a hands-on gardening experience in this kindergarten life science activity.

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

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

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

Understanding absorption means understanding why certain fibers and materials can absorb water! Kids will see absorption in action in this simple project.

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.

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

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Which do you prefer: real or artificial? Try this sweet little taste experiment to help your kids develop a better awareness of the food they consume.

Kids conduct a simple birdseed experiment to figure out what kinds of birds live nearby in this fun science activity.

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

Do this activity to help your kids see how seeds contain "baby" versions of big plant stems, roots, and leaves.

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

Hatch a praying mantis egg case in a homemade habitat with your child's help! This is an amazing experiment in science and nature for kids of any age.

Recycling may be a confusing concept for your little one, so take the time to teach them the magic of compost - right in your own backyard!

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.

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.

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

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).

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.

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

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.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

In this activity your child will make a coiling snake out of simple household materials, and also find out why they coil.