Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

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

Kids will learn how to clean fish tank the natural way. Add catfish to the tank and see if your water gets cleaner.

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!

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

Create your very own scented hand sanitizer that will help your child to keep those nasty germs at bay!

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Kids are sure to be entranced by the magic of the ocean when they create their very own ocean in a bottle.

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!

Your preschooler is familiar with the colors in their crayon box, but can they find these colors in the world? Take them on a scavenger hunt to find out!

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

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

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!

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.

In this awesome science fair project idea, kids will be attempting to pick up different objects using snail slime.

Why do plants wilt? Kids will learn to think critically about what environmental factors affect plants, and what plants need to survive.