If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Clouds are formed when warm and cold air meet. Here's a way for kids to see it all up close!

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

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.

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

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

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.

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.