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Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.

This science fair project looks one of the most important factors affecting seed germination: water. A fun and easy plant biology experiment for 3rd graders.

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.

In this simple circular motion experiment, you'll observe tangential velocity and learn about how acceleration and centripetal force affect an object.

This holiday season, don't forget the many delights of "cookie science"! Here's a confection we especially like.

Finger puppets encourage creative play, communication, and they give you a great way to share the Passover story with your kids.

Let your fourth grader contribute to your 4th of July picnic with this creative caddy craft project.

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

Here is an activity that your kids can make for Mother's Day, a garden pot filled with edible "flowers".

Does your child long to be the next Captain Hook? This great craft activity will provide an invaluable accessory for any costume box: a pirate hook!

Use an old strawberry basket to create a decorative box for storing knickknacks, jewelry or odds and ends with this recycled craft.

Make a special card with a surprise that jumps out! Simple and inexpensive, it's a snap for little hands to make.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

This activity encourages children to sculpt in free form. The only rule is that they have to build upwards.

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

Use the appeal of the common road sign to your advantage by creating a game with hidden learning opportunities.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Recycling may be a confusing concept for your little one, so take the time to teach them the magic of compost - right in your own backyard!

Celebrate the season of flowers with a homemade vase budding with blooms of the season. Filled with the warmth of a sunny day, it's just the thing for spring.

Shake things up by introducing your child to charcoal pencils! These unique drawing tools make blending, shading, and smudging easy and fun.

Most parents probably wouldn't mind subtracting 8-9 years off their age. Here's a fun third grade subtraction activity that may do just that.

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with your child and teach her about Mexican heritage with this fun arts and crafts activity.

This silly game is a fun way to introduce and reinforce sight words--by fishing for them!

Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

Re-purpose a tin can into a pretty compost bucket for your family's kitchen counter and learn about the science and fun of recycling and renewing objects.

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.

Mix fun with basic math in this fun homemade game of ring toss! Make rings out of paper plates and you're ready to play anytime, anywhere!

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

Learn how to count in Spanish. Your child will practice her numbers and build her reading skills while learning a bit about Latino culture along the way.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.