Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

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

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

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

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

How can you tell the difference between a spider and an insect? Your child will find out as he makes a tray of yummy creepy crawly snacks.

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

The pinwheel is a simple toy that has been around for years and uses the wonders of the wind to spin it and delight kids of all ages!

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

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

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

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

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

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

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

Show your preschooler how to create a simple windsock using a colorful piece of tissue paper, a pipe cleaner, and yarn.

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

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

Have your child make a special mobile inspired by the weather outside. Learn about seasons, the environment, and art in 3D.

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Are you looking for an out-of-this world activity that's both fun and educational? This solar system garland is a great way to introduce your child to astronomy.

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.