Who needs paint, glitter, or crayons when you have natural art supplies right outside your front door?

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

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

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.

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

Inspire your child to put on her engineer hat for the day, as she builds her very own, double-decker bridge.

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.

Encourage local wildlife to settle down in your backyard with this adorable bird nest craft.

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

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

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.

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

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.

The pinwheel is a simple toy that has been around for years and uses the wonders of the wind to spin it and delight kids of all ages!

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!

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

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

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

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