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!

Does your kid love crafts AND food? Teach him to paint with natural dyes from food! He'll be amazed that food can be made into art, just like in ancient times.

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.

Help your kindergartener practice counting from one to ten with this fun outdoor activity. Make a "My Backyard Counting Book" to review counting to ten.

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.

In this activity, children learn about artistic portraiture by creating a life-sized painting of their favorite creature.

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

Introduce colors to shadow play with this creative and irresistible science activity!

Geared toward kindergarten and first grade learners, The Weather Inside is a fun activity to help help children understand and process their emotions in a healthy way.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

Help your second grader embrace his "green" side by recycling empty citrus peels into fruity ice cream bowls!

Most people throw out soaked tea bags after use, but artists know a secret--tea bags can be a great medium for creating one-of-a-kind modern art.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

In this activity, your child will be given images that portray different perspectives or emotions. Your child will practice empathy by coloring and drawing what each person may have been thinking or feeling.

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!

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

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!

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

Kids in preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school will love turning flower pots into homemade musical instruments in this fun and simple activity.

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

Craft a winter words alphabet book to celebrate this chilly season in this preschool-kindergarten arts and crafts activity.