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

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

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.

Make frog feet sponge prints with your child for a fun and educational crafts activity.

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!

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).

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

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.

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.

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

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

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

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

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

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

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

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

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

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

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

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

This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.

Trick your eye with this easy-to-make animation flip book! It's a fun way to learn about persistence of vision and is creative enough to entertain anyone.

In this art project, budding entomologists will create a larger than life, moveable puppet version of a praying mantis.

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

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

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.