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.

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.

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

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!

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

Let your second grader pay homage to an ancient Olympic tradition with this modern day Olympic wreath!

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.

This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

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

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:

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Build a kindergarten bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.