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.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

This first grade science activity brings the green grass of early spring inside while teaching your child about the cycles of growth.

Hatch a praying mantis egg case in a homemade habitat with your child's help! This is an amazing experiment in science and nature for kids of any age.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

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!

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

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.

Help your child build her very own science laboratory at home for experiments and science projects. This is a quick, easy, and fun educational tool!

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

Use this fun activity to make an optical illusion picture that helps your kindergartener explore the sense of sight, and sharpen his observation skills!

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

Who knew that you could make beads out of rose petals? Not only can it be done, but the beads smell wonderful!

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!

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

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!

In this kindergarten activity your child will create a map of your house and use a magnet to move pictures of your family through the house!

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

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

Come take off your shoes and explore with your feet. Your child will embark on a barefoot adventure as he plays with different textures.

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.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

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