Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

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.

Inspire your child to learn about an amazing animal as she creates her very own polar bear habitat.

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

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

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

Play with balance and simple engineering as you hurry to create a sturdy rock tower.

Using a toy race car kids create a visual model of the Doppler Effect.

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

Create your own cloud with an activity that will explain how important concepts such as evaporation, condensation, and precipitation work.

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

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

Learn about the layers of the Earth and make a model! Create a earth layer book, cake, or clay diagram.

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

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

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

In this experiment, your child will create two compost bins and see if he can determine what attracts fruit flies.

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

Is it possible to trick the forces of nature that make your bubbles round to create a square bubble?

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

The rock cycle will come alive for your child when he uses broken crayons to create the three basic rock types.

This activity challenges students to use computational thinking as they create a sequence of commands that will make a robot navigate around several obstacles.

In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.

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.

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.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

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.

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