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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

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.

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

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

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.

Make edible amber fossils with your second grader to explore the fascinating world of science!

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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.

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.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

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

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.