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

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

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

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Use natural materials to try out a new kind of weaving. Your child will enjoy gathering their materials outside and then using them to create a piece of art!

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

Discover the wonders of simple clay by pressing flowers into a modeling medium!

Make an adorable nut buddy by crafting nature people out of nuts in shells! Buddies will take on their own personalities depending on the materials you use.

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

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

Wreath ornaments decorate your Christmas tree and act as a fun sensory craft for preschoolers. Make wreath ornaments with your child this holiday season.

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

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

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

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

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

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!