Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

Show your preschooler how to create a simple windsock using a colorful piece of tissue paper, a pipe cleaner, and yarn.

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!

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.

Play Rock Tic-Tac-Toe, the perfect outdoor game for all ages. Help your child develop thinking skills and get away from the TV!

Discover the wonders of simple clay by pressing flowers into a modeling medium!

Summer is a great time to work on pre-kindergarten skills that will serve your child well in her first year at school, while having some fun in the sun!

Kids conduct a simple science experiment to see if seeds can grow without soil in this simple kindergarten science activity.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Have your little astronaut create her own crater-filled moon with this fun craft project that encourages learning about the final frontier.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Have your child make a special mobile inspired by the weather outside. Learn about seasons, the environment, and art in 3D.

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.

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:

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

Who knew that nature could get so crafty? Show your kindergartener how to collect and morph pinecones into a whole team of personalized pinecone people.

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

Your kindergartener will have a blast helping you craft these fun, eco-friendly potted place cards.

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

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

Make these homemade shell fossils and introduce your child to the wonders of science!

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

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

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

Make an adorable nut buddy by crafting nature people out of nuts in shells! Buddies will take on their own personalities depending on the materials you use.

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

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

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

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