This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.

In this activity your child will make a coiling snake out of simple household materials, and also find out why they coil.

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

The next time you and your fifth grader go on a hike, take along this key to figure out which common North American animal left a track along the river bank.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

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

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

Brine shrimp usually live in saltwater. Investigate how salt concentration (salinity) affects the rate at which brine shrimp eggs hatch.