Life Science Arts & crafts Activities

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

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

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

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.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

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.

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.

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!

Feed your birds from kitchen leftovers and give your first grader some excellent scientific practise in identifying our feathered friends.

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

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

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

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

Here's a year five science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

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

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

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

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

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

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

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

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

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

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