This balloon-powered car project is a great way for your kid to learn about energy and how it can be used efficiently.

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

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

This science fair project teaches about mold. Students will test different foods to see which grow mold the fastest.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

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

How do we know that air exists when we can't see it, taste it, or touch it? Here's a classic experiment that will teach your kid some basics of aerodynamics!

This project determines whether Styrofoam, paper, or plastic cups are best for preventing ice from melting.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

What is a wedge? Kids find out by experimenting with different wedges in this simple science fair project idea.

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.

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

This science experiment examines the role of fat in food, especially in making bread rise and whipping cream.

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

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!

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

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

In this project, build an insect model that shows how the head, thorax, and abdomen fit together! Learn insect anatomy by constructing a paper mache critter.

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

Help your child make an attractive frozen holiday ornament to hang outside during winter months.

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

Help your kindergarten scientist discover relative size, density, and buoyancy with this fun, pumpkin science project!

Here's a fun math and science activity: help your child explore four different kinds of measurement, using their hand and a few simple household tools.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

Make a wish upon a tree with this craft that also helps your child learn more about Chinese culture.

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

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