Is your child a young ornithologist in the making?

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

Create a bee garden to help shelter bees in your area.

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

Teach your child how to make an all-natural, yellow-brown dye, using just walnut shells and water. This deep dye can be used on textiles, art, and wood.

A mixture of botany, exploration, Abstract Art and Pop Art color theoryâthis activity never gets dull! Start by exploring outdoors and finish with indoor art.

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.

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

Your child can use leaves and grass to create his own outdoor art in celebration of Earth Day...all he needs are is the great outdoors and some creativity!

Make all-natural dye from vegetables to create gorgeous homemade play-silks!

This easy at-home experiment is a great way to "see" science.

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

Brighten up your home with this fun activity! Make a summer sun print and teach your child the art of easy print making.

This activity turns your kid into the family weatherman. Plus, it teaches him to collect data and begin to understand graphing.

Is your little scientist up for a rocky challenge? Let them make their own geode rocks using eggs and epsom salts!

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

In this activity, your kid will watch coal turn into crystals right before her very eyes, and learn some science along the way!

Help your child make an attractive frozen holiday ornament to hang outside during winter months.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

How much water comes out of snow? Explore this timely question with your kindergarten scientist with this easy winter experiment.

Using plants and other items from the outdoors and clothing they already own, your kids can dress up as any one of the four seasons or simply as a Garden.

Introduce your fourth grader to the concepts of solstices by observing the length of her shadow on the shortest day of the year, compared to other solstices.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

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

Your kid will delight in creating an extraterrestrial vehicle from goods found around the house. There's no telling where her imagination will go!

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

With some cookie dough and ordinary household objects, let your kindergartener explore how fossil imprints are made.

Hatch a praying mantis egg case in a homemade habitat with your child's help! This is an amazing experiment in science and nature for kids of any age.