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

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

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.

Inspire your child to learn about an amazing animal as she creates her very own polar bear habitat.

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

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!

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

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

Help your child create a tasty treat that will demonstrate exactly how frogs survive a freezing season.

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

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

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

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

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

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

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.

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

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.

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

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.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

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

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

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.

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.