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

This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.

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

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

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.

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

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

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.

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

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

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

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

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.

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

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

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.