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!

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

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

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

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

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

Who knew that nature could get so crafty? Show your kindergartener how to collect and morph pinecones into a whole team of personalized pinecone people.

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

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Let your second grader pay homage to an ancient Olympic tradition with this modern day Olympic wreath!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

Help your child experiment with the combination of acid and baking soda by making these homemade bath bombs!

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

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

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

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

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

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

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.

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.

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.