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

Get your child in the mood for a season full of lazy days at the beach with this colorful summer centerpiece art project!

Can't make it to the beach? Bring the science of ocean waves home with this fun earth science-related craft.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

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

Let your imaginative kid pretend she's a mermaid as she dives into her food with some charming kelp utensils!

Add a smattering of beachy fun to a regular paper plate with this simple and adorable seashell craft!

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

Your child will have a blast developing their fine motor skills and working on shape recognition with this bright and cheery crab decoration.

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

Teach your kids about colors and patterns while creating a beautiful work of art.

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

In this activity, your child will develop her sensory awareness and build important math skills while having fun outdoors.

Summer is a good time to teach children about other kinds of community helpers, such as lifeguards, forest rangers, and librarians. This activity is a fun way to get them introduced!

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

Learn how different types of soil affect how animal tracks form in this experiment!

Try making your own conch planter in this decorative shell.

This fun, summery arts and crafts activity is a great project to do with your child. She'll express her creativity while she revamps some old flip flops.

In this science fair project, students discover how sedimentary layers form as sediments like mud, silt and sand settle over time.

This hunting game is just as fun outdoors as it is inside. And while they'll never suspect they're learning, it helps kids develop listening skills, too!

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Your first grader will improve her fine motor skills as she designs her own drum set with recycled household objects and art supplies!

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Can you dig it? This science experiment isn't for kids who like to keep their hands clean.

Delight your child by helping them to construct a boat that can hold two seaworthy toy figures in this engaging project made from upcycled water bottles.

Bring the sea to your home with this marine life–inspired art project that displays beautifully when suspended from the ceiling.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

Here's a fun activity to help build thinking skills in young first grade scientists, and to encourage them to have a blast exploring the mass and volume.

With this cool floating rocks project, your child will get some hands-on experience with buoyancy and learn why certain rocks like pumice are able to float.