Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

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

Make a periscope with milk cartons and mirrors! This preschool activity is great for playing secret agent and learning simple physics.

Blanket forts are a kid classic! Let your child create a âfortress of solitudeâ on his own for reading, telling scary stories or for cozy cocooning.

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

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.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.

Show your child how to construct a homemade thermometer. It's hands-on fun and a great way to learn about this important instrument!

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

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.

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.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

How can you tell the difference between a spider and an insect? Your child will find out as he makes a tray of yummy creepy crawly snacks.

This simple "how to make a water wheel" activity makes physics come alive for your child by demonstrating how different kinds of energy work.

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.