In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

Give your child a chance to experiment with how things grow. And throw in something extra to up the fun factor even more...her very own grass pet!

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

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

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

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

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.

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

Try hammering some plants with your kids to teach them a valuable lesson in flower science while making beautiful artwork in the process!

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

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

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

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

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

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!

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

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!

When the wind starts blowing, you and your child can plant a sponge garden in the comfort of your own kitchen. Here's how:

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.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

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.

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

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

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

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

Explore aromas with your child and help boost her brain power with some fun and interactive science activities.

Learn about the fruit fly life cycle in this experiment. Capture fruit flies to examine various stages of insect metamorphosis.

This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!