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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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!

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Help your child build her very own science laboratory at home for experiments and science projects. This is a quick, easy, and fun educational tool!

Use simple materials to build a "worm hotel" with your kindergarten soil scientist...and see what worms really do all day.

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

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 simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.