Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

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

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

Help your child experiment with the combination of acid and baking soda by making these homemade bath bombs!

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

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!

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

It's easier than you think to make homemade play dough -- just a few pantry staples makes a natural version of the toy that kids have loved for generations.

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

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

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.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

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.

Let your second grader pay homage to an ancient Olympic tradition with this modern day Olympic wreath!

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

How can you tell the difference between a spider and an insect? Your child will find out as he makes a tray of yummy creepy crawly snacks.

Discover the wonders of simple clay by pressing flowers into a modeling medium!

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

Who knew that nature could get so crafty? Show your kindergartener how to collect and morph pinecones into a whole team of personalized pinecone people.

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

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

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.