Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

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

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

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

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

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 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.

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.

Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

Put those fall leaves to use with this fun art activity. Kids paint and print leaves, to make a beautiful tablecloth, perfect for your next fall celebration.

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.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

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

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

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

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

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

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

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

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

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

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.