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.

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

Help your child make an attractive frozen holiday ornament to hang outside during winter months.

The weather is a key kindergarten science concept. With this activity your child will learn about wind direction and create a self portrait, too!

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.

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how:

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

Encourage a group of third graders to play this fun game of Whistle Hide-and-Seek as a warm-up to get them prepared for finding a "lost" camper.

Help your preschooler craft a homemade wind spinning device--a surefire to make your backyard sparkle, and teach her a bit about weather!

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

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.

Science fair project examining barometric pressure, and how it can be used to predict the weather. How does atmospheric pressures relate to weather conditions?

Looking for a fun summer adventure? Learn what it was like to be a prospector during the California Gold Rush by panning for gold in a local creek.

Conduct a simple experiment with your child to study how dirt tracks change as they age in this 1st grade science activity.

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

With a clear bottle and a few plastic straws, you can easily make a hummingbird feeder and demonstrate the effects of atmospheric pressure at the same time!

Create a bee garden to help shelter bees in your area.

How much water comes out of snow? Explore this timely question with your kindergarten scientist with this easy winter experiment.

Recreate the fantastic phenomena of solar eclipses with your child using just a flashlight, a quarter, and her very own face!

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.

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

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!

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!