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

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

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

Follow in the footsteps of movie character legends as you walk your little one through the steps of becoming a junior archaeologist.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

Are you looking for an out-of-this world activity that's both fun and educational? This solar system garland is a great way to introduce your child to astronomy.

It's easier than you think to make homemade play dough -- just a few pantry staples makes a natural version of the toy that kids have loved for generations.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

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.

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

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

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

Help your child create a magical miniature garden in the most unlikely of places: a recycled plastic bottle!

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.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.