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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.

This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

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

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.