Nature Activities & Nature Experiments

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

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.

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

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.

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!

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your kid with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as she plants radish seeds and watches them grow.

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

Let your second grader pay homage to an ancient Olympic tradition with this modern day Olympic wreath!

This preschool activity uses paint chips to help your child learn about different shades of colors and how to find different colors in nature.

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

Let your fabulous crafter use her favorite flowers, fruits and herbs to whip up a delicious perfume that she can proudly present to a friend or loved one.

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.

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging her to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

Looking for a fun summer adventure? Learn what it was like to be a prospector during the California Gold Rush by panning for gold in a local creek.

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.

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

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.