Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

Would it hurt to skip brushing your teeth just this once? Let's find out by seeing which foods produce the most mouth bacteria.

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

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

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

Create your very own scented hand sanitizer that will help your child to keep those nasty germs at bay!

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

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

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

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

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!

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 taste buds science experiment demonstrates how strongly our sense of smell controls what we taste.

Help children understand the power of germs and the importance of hand washing with this visual activity that introduces the concept of scientific inquiry.

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

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery—and then they'll make a texture book!

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

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

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

Does putting soapy water on plants help or hinder plant growth? Kids learn about greywater and how it affects plant growth in this cool science fair project.

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

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.