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.

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

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).

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.

Your preschooler will engage their senses by making a scented pumpkin to decorate your house.

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!

Wreath ornaments decorate your Christmas tree and act as a fun sensory craft for preschoolers. Make wreath ornaments with your child this holiday season.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

Travel back to the Jurassic age with this creative dinosaur activity that would make a great addition to any wall or fridge.

In this fun activity, frozen cubes of paint provide your preschooler with a cool new way to paint a masterpiece.

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

Aquariums are usually reserved for fish, but this aquarium will contain creatures from your child's imagination!

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

Here's an arts and crafts guide for your high-school teenager that'll help her create a naturalist drawing and painting.

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.

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