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

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

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

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

It's easier than you think to make homemade play dough -- just a few pantry staples makes a natural version of the toy that kids have loved for generations.

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

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

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

Turn an abstract lesson into a practical craft with the fun and colorful creation of dough earth layers!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

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.