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.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

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

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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 science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

Kids will learn how to clean fish tank the natural way. Add catfish to the tank and see if your water gets cleaner.

Use natural materials to try out a new kind of weaving. Your child will enjoy gathering their materials outside and then using them to create a piece of art!

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.

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Create your very own scented hand sanitizer that will help your child to keep those nasty germs at bay!

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

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

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

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

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

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

Science fair project idea that examines different physical characteristics of a chosen animal. Make educated guesses about evolution based on animal's form.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

Here's a simple and fun kindergarten or first grade gardening activity: grow a miniature container garden in a paper egg carton. Great for kinesthetic learners.

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

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

Recycling may be a confusing concept for your little one, so take the time to teach them the magic of compost - right in your own backyard!

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

Your preschooler is familiar with the colors in their crayon box, but can they find these colors in the world? Take them on a scavenger hunt to find out!

Wiggly worms are known for staying buried in the soil, but how does that affect plants? Are earthworms and plant growth related?