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

Design a survival kit. Brainstorm various survival scenarios. Address basic human requirements and natural resources. Describe each tool as well uses.

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.

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural 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 activity, children will work on their mathematics and engineering skills as they attempt to recreate the Eiffel Tower out of building blocks!

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.

This tricky building block challenge asks your learner to think creatively. They will work on their divergent thinking skills as they try to fill up an index card perfectly with building bricks.

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!

This science fair project idea explores plant growth from a bulb, root, and a stem and investigates asexual plant reproduction.

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!

Popsicles aren't just for the summertime, this activity takes cold and turns it into a creative and tasty science experiment.

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

These flying potato poppers make a cool sound, create a celebratory mood, and they can teach your child about the power of air pressure.

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

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