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

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!

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

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

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

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

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

Science fair project that determines whether lettuce that is harvested gradually yields more produce than lettuce that is harvested all at once.

First grade science often covers solids, liquids, and gases. This silly science explores serious facts about the difference between all three.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

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.

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.

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

Test your friends to find out if you can replicate the placebo effect's incredible results.

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

Is your little scientist up for a rocky challenge? Let them make their own geode rocks using eggs and epsom salts!

How can we describe the relationship of magnetic field strength vs. distance? Kids will find out with this free science fair project idea.

This balloon-powered car project is a great way for your kid to learn about energy and how it can be used efficiently.

In this project, build an insect model that shows how the head, thorax, and abdomen fit together! Learn insect anatomy by constructing a paper mache critter.

This science experiment has students test whether a snail moves faster on concrete or dirt.

What animals are most popular? This project affords practice in data-collection, record-keeping and data-analysis through the investigation of this question.

How do animals keep warm? In this experiment, find out whether fat insulation resists cold temperatures and learn how this works in the animal kingdom.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

Delight your budding scientist with this cool physics magic trick and teach her some basic physics concepts while you're at it!

Teach your child how butter is created by shaking up cream the old-fashioned way.

Step into the fantastic world of colors with a project that explores what shade you -- and your friends -- like best.

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.