Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

Who needs paint, glitter, or crayons when you have natural art supplies right outside your front door?

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

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Help your child experiment with the combination of acid and baking soda by making these homemade bath bombs!

Inspire your child to put on her engineer hat for the day, as she builds her very own, double-decker bridge.

Your fourth grader will be astonished to discover the significance and intricacies of his spine as he builds a model of a human vertebral column.

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

Encourage local wildlife to settle down in your backyard with this adorable bird nest craft.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

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.

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

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

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

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

The pinwheel is a simple toy that has been around for years and uses the wonders of the wind to spin it and delight kids of all ages!

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

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

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

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

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."