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

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

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

Who needs paint, glitter, or crayons when you have natural art supplies right outside your front door?

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

Learn about different fern fronds with your third grader as you create lacy, natural decorations on your Easter eggs this year.

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

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.

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.

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!

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

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.

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

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

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

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!

Some fossils have been been preserved for billions of years! Help your kid understand how fossils are created and preserved with this crafty project.

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

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

This simple experiment serves as an introduction to the greenhouse effect.

Crystals are a very special structure. In this third grade activity, your child will learn how to grow salt crystals.

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

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

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

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

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

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.

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!

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

In this activity, your child will make her own "quicksand" to better understand how a substance can be both fluid and solid at the same time.