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

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!

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

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

This activity is a great way to stretch the boundaries of your child's imagination and build up important critical thinking skills.

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

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

Hone your child's skills of observation and take a look at forensic science for an interesting afternoon of exploration and detective work!

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Develop your child's mathematical and engineering skills with this fun building brick challenge. In this activity, your learner will be challenged to create a boat out of building bricks.

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.

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

Satisfy your sweet tooth with this easy summer activity! Make homemade ice cream and let your child practice his science skills.

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

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

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

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

In this science project, learn about water transport in plants and make a beautiful dyed floral arrangement with cohesion, adhesion, and xylem tubes!

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!

This science fair project teaches students about wilting and browning of salad greens.

Make all-natural dye from vegetables to create gorgeous homemade play-silks!

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

Ever wondered how a plant drinks water? This science project will teach you how and help you create a beautiful floral display!

Science fair project examining barometric pressure, and how it can be used to predict the weather. How does atmospheric pressures relate to weather conditions?

When you cut a flower to put into a vase, it'll eventually wilt, even with water and sunshine. But is there another scientific secret to keeping flowers fresh?

How does smell affect taste? Ready your taste buds--in this project, you'll gather some test subjects and do a taste test to see how much smell affects taste.