Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Help your young learner discover why the insects that a spider eats stick to its web but the spider doesn't.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

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

Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

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

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.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

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

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening 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!

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

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

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

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.