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

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

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

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

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

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.

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!

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

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

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.

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

Is your child a young ornithologist in the making?

You don't need to wait for rain to see a rainbow. Make one yourself, and teach your child about light and weather in the process.

Create your own cloud with an activity that will explain how important concepts such as evaporation, condensation, and precipitation work.

Pair a planetarium visit with this fun art project that mimics the look of far-off galaxies.

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.

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

Help your kindergarten scientist explore an important part of earth science: how soil retains water.

What's a crater, and how does it happen? Here's a kindergarten experiment with safe, nontoxic ingredients.

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

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

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

Your child grows a green thumb and flowers with this seed planting activity that also celebrates the 100th day of school!

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

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.

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.