Nature Activities & Nature Experiments

Make a spring collage with your preschooler to get her outside and those creative juices flowing!

Does your child always demand to know why the sky is blue, how the sun moves across the sky, or where wind comes from?

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.

Many ancient cultures used the rising or setting sun to create calendars. Observe the setting sun once a week to come up with your own solar calendar!

You don't need to wait for rain to see a rainbow. Make one yourself, and teach your child about light and weather in the process.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

In this activity, find out who the flowers' "partners in crime" are by being a flower spy!

In this plant habitats activity, children play the role of an ecologist and take surveys of different areas to discover the best habitat for dandelions.

Can you think of a way of cleaning dirty water using the sun? In this activity, you will be making a "solar still" that is able to do just that!

Here's a way to make history both interesting and relevant: design a garden using plants that were used by people in colonial times!

Help your child understand the scientific concept of evaporation with this fun outdoor science activity.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Add some fun to arts and crafts by having your child make a self portrait using nature as her palette.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

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