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

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

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

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!

In this science fair project, young children will become aware of and have the opportunity to experience the four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

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.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

If you find yourself with a pair of kids' rain boots too cute to toss and too worn to wear, try making this fun and easy planter.

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

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

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

In this fun guessing game, your child uses his sense of smell and taste to figure out what is in the container. Here's how to play:

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

Help your child hunt and capture bugs to observe to practice important science skills and satisfy her curiosity simultaneously!

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

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.

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

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.

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

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.

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first 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.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

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!

Wreath ornaments decorate your Christmas tree and act as a fun sensory craft for preschoolers. Make wreath ornaments with your child this holiday season.