Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

Your kid will delight in creating an extraterrestrial vehicle from goods found around the house. There's no telling where her imagination will go!

Aquariums are usually reserved for fish, but this aquarium will contain creatures from your child's imagination!

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

This craft is an excellent way to learn about African-American history, and it also provides fine motor practice.

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

This year on Mother's Day, try this gift project that brings together an appreciation for gardening with a hands-on lesson in art history.

Who says snow globes are just for winter? Help your child create a summer version with this fun art project!

Is your child a young ornithologist in the making?

If your mom likes flowers, make her a sweet gift that she'll treasure with this fun craft, a pretty Pressed Flowers Card!

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

Tin can phones offer something modern versions don't—a fun project to make with a friend, and a dramatic illustration of vibration and sound waves.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Make your own helicopter using a paper clip and a sheet of paper. Hold the spinner up in the air, let it go, and watch it spin gracefully to the ground.

Transform your uncomfortable wooden shoes into charming mini planters!

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

Turn an abstract lesson into a practical craft with the fun and colorful creation of dough earth layers!

This crafty activity provides a hands-on way for your child to illustrate how the trees look during each season of the year.

Looking for a fun way to encourage imaginative play? Try crafting these animal dice with your preschooler.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.