Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

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

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.

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

Help your child learn about animal classification with this fun and delicious activity.

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

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.

Would it hurt to skip brushing your teeth just this once? Let's find out by seeing which foods produce the most mouth bacteria.

This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

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.

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.

This fun and easy middle school science fair project idea explores the topic of pollution and demonstrates if polluted soil affect the growth of green plants.

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

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

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.

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

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

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

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

Introduce your child to the importance of preserving the world's biodiversity by turning a lesson on endangered species into a fun game for the whole family.

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

Who knew that you could make beads out of rose petals? Not only can it be done, but the beads smell wonderful!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.