Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

Reuse and recycle cardboard tubes to make spooky spiders, kooky caterpillars, wacky worms, and more.

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

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

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Use simple materials to build a "worm hotel" with your kindergarten soil scientist...and see what worms really do all day.

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

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

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.