Looking for a fun way to encourage imaginative play? Try crafting these animal dice with your preschooler.

Make a periscope with milk cartons and mirrors! This preschool activity is great for playing secret agent and learning simple physics.

This crafty activity provides a hands-on way for your child to illustrate how the trees look during each season of the year.

Turn an abstract lesson into a practical craft with the fun and colorful creation of dough earth layers!

Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

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.

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.

This Valentine's Day, pair up science and crafting with this simple crystal formation project that's sure to bring a little love into your home.

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

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.

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.

Transform your uncomfortable wooden shoes into charming mini planters!

Have your little astronaut create her own crater-filled moon with this fun craft project that encourages learning about the final frontier.

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

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

What's cooler than an explosion? Not much! This simple science experiment lets kids build their own pop rocket. So put on your safety goggles and let her rip.

Learn about Ikebana, or the Japanese art of flower arranging, with your child while artfully arranging spring flowers!

Make your own helicopter using a paper clip and a sheet of paper. Hold the spinner up in the air, let it go, and watch it spin gracefully to the ground.

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

Inspire your child to learn about an amazing animal as she creates her very own polar bear habitat.

Turn the common pastime of constructing paper airplanes into a lesson on the physics of aerodynamics and flight with this fun science activity.

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.

Show your preschooler how to construct this very special planter for Mom. It makes a great pick-me-up, and it's easy for kids to make in a flash!

Jazz up your patio or backyard with hip and quirky planters made from simple Mason jars.

Would your child like to learn about a hidden world? All she needs to do is open her box of markers!

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

Help your young scientist celebrate the wonders of the night sky in the comfort of your own home.

Blanket forts are a kid classic! Let your child create a âfortress of solitudeâ on his own for reading, telling scary stories or for cozy cocooning.