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.

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

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

This cool and easy elementary school science fair project idea provides the basic information on the use of our senses to experience the world about us.

Boys might wrinkle their noses at the thought of gardening, but we guarantee they'll like this activity! Make a recycled terrarium full of bug-eating plants.

Come take off your shoes and explore with your feet. Your child will embark on a barefoot adventure as he plays with different textures.

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

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

In this activity your child will make a coiling snake out of simple household materials, and also find out why they coil.

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.

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

Kids conduct a simple birdseed experiment to figure out what kinds of birds live nearby in this fun science activity.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

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.

Bring the fun of gardening indoors! By stuffing a simple pair of pantyhose with a few grass seeds on top, your child can grow her very own plant pet.

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

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

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

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.

With this hands-on activity, you'll show how fall colors are hidden in the leaf all year long!

In this plastic wrap science fair project, you'll learn about polymer permeability and find out which plastic wrap keeps food from dehydrating best.

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!

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!

Learn about the fruit fly life cycle in this experiment. Capture fruit flies to examine various stages of insect metamorphosis.

Cherries usually burst with flavor, but in this science experiment they burst with osmotic pressure. This science activity will blow your curious kid's mind!

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.

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!

Your child can help your family pet take a breather, and help herself relax, too, with this soothing activity.

This activity is a great way to teach kids that, to find examples of science in action, they donât need to look any further than their own backyard.

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.