Learn whether writing things down really makes things easier to remember.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

This project explores whether nails, toothpicks, straws, or pen nibs are best for applying ink to paper.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

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

Here's a pressed leaf card project that puts science and writing together for your second grader.

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

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

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.

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

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.

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

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.

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

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

Here's an interesting activity that will enable your child to make his own magnifier out of a drop of water

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

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

Bring the magic and mystery of the night sky to the light of day with this fun constellation art project!

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

This project investigates the affect of storage temperature on microwave popcorn.

Your child can explore the wonders of science, and the concept of dehydration, along with creating a healthy and tasty treat!

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.