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.

Do you think heat can affect a plant's growth rate?

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

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

This activity is a great way to stretch the boundaries of your child's imagination and build up important critical thinking skills.

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!

Encourage a group of third graders to play this fun game of Whistle Hide-and-Seek as a warm-up to get them prepared for finding a "lost" camper.

Take a closer look at the soil that surrounds us, and give your child a lesson in Geology 101!

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

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

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.

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

Hunt for natureâs treasure, the many different products made by trees!

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.

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

Make a wish upon a tree with this craft that also helps your child learn more about Chinese culture.

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

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

Lead your first grader on a nature walk ... with a scavenger hunt-style twist! They'll try to capture photos that correspond to paint chip colors.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

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

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

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

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

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

Throughout history, people have used song as a teaching and memory tool. This project explores whether song improves a person's ability to retain information.

Start your toy engines -- this is going to be a fast and friction-filled race!

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

What's a liquid? What's a solid? What better way to experiment than by turning a childhood favorite, ice cream, into a homemade science lesson!