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

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

Lead your first grader on a nature walk ... with a scavenger hunt-style twist! They'll try to capture photos that correspond to paint chip colors.

Celebrate autumn with a seasonal bash. Welcome the fall with a festive party for your little one and her friends, full of crafts, snacks and fun games.

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!

Your preschooler wonât need a passport to go on this nature safari! All you need are paper, crayons and a nature trail or your back yard.

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

Use sticks and stones to create create an outdoor version of tic-tac-toe!

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

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

Play Rock Tic-Tac-Toe, the perfect outdoor game for all ages. Help your child develop thinking skills and get away from the TV!

Want to get your bookworm interested in science? Check out this cool activity that teaches kids how to write science fiction!

Your preschooler is familiar with the colors in their crayon box, but can they find these colors in the world? Take them on a scavenger hunt to find out!

Science fair project that helps you create your own compost pile in order to test the efficiency of different methods of composting.

This simple activity is not only fun, it's also a useful way to organize children's closets — and offer kids some autonomy to boot.

Take a closer look at the soil that surrounds us, and give your child a lesson in Geology 101!

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

Encourage a group of third graders to play this fun game of Whistle Hide-and-Seek as a warm-up to get them prepared for finding a "lost" camper.

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

Kids are sure to be entranced by the magic of the ocean when they create their very own ocean in a bottle.

Help your second grader observe the phases of the moon, and then let the fun loose: he'll get to chart his observations with marshmallows!

In this math and science activity, help your middleschooler learn about proportion and measurement with just her shadow and a tape measure!

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

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