Nature Activities

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

Make a spring collage with your preschooler to get her outside and those creative juices flowing!

You don't need to wait for rain to see a rainbow. Make one yourself, and teach your child about light and weather in the process.

Can you think of a way of cleaning dirty water using the sun? In this activity, you will be making a "solar still" that is able to do just that!

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

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

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!

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as she plants radish seeds and watches them grow.

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

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

Add some fun to arts and crafts by having your child make a self portrait using nature as her palette.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your kid with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

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

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.

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

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.

This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

Let your fabulous crafter use her favorite flowers, fruits and herbs to whip up a delicious perfume that she can proudly present to a friend or loved one.

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.

Does your child always demand to know why the sky is blue, how the sun moves across the sky, or where wind comes from?

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

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching her some backyard astronomy at the same time.