Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

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

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

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.

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

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

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

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

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

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

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

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

Try this fun and simple activity to help nurture your child's observation skills and nourish a growing love of science!

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

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

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

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.

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.

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.

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

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