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

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

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

Your child will create her own falling snowflakes using white paper and glue them over a tree, so it appears as if they are falling from the sky.

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

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

Learn about nature by making your own mini moss garden.

Encourage local wildlife to settle down in your backyard with this adorable bird nest craft.

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

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

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

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.

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

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

Take to the air with science by experimenting with helicopter seeds right in your own backyard!

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

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

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.

In this science fair project, students make their own rain gauge to measure rainfall.

Help your second grade scientist explore the timely topic of wind speed using a version of the classic Beaufort Scale.

Celebrate autumn with a seasonal bash. Welcome the fall with a festive party for your little one and her friends, full of crafts, snacks and fun games.