Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

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

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.

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

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.

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

Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

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

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

Put those fall leaves to use with this fun art activity. Kids paint and print leaves, to make a beautiful tablecloth, perfect for your next fall celebration.

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

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

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

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

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

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

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

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

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

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

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.

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.

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

This year on Mother's Day, try this gift project that brings together an appreciation for gardening with a hands-on lesson in art history.