Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Take advantage of the fact that ink and water don't mix and introduce your kid to suminagashi, a Japanese form of art.

Is your child a young ornithologist in the making?

Make all-natural dye from vegetables to create gorgeous homemade play-silks!

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.

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

Learn about different fern fronds with your third grader as you create lacy, natural decorations on your Easter eggs this year.

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

Travel back to the Jurassic age with this creative dinosaur activity that would make a great addition to any wall or fridge.

Pair a planetarium visit with this fun art project that mimics the look of far-off galaxies.

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

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

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

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

Using plants and other items from the outdoors and clothing they already own, your kids can dress up as any one of the four seasons or simply as a Garden.

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

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.

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

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

Teach your child how to make an all-natural, yellow-brown dye, using just walnut shells and water. This deep dye can be used on textiles, art, and wood.

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

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

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

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

This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.