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

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

Science fair project that helps you create your own compost pile in order to test the efficiency of different methods of composting.

In this free science fair project, learn how to separate salt from water using heat. A great science project for elementary school kids.

Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

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.

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.

Help your fifth grader trace your family's roots and interview all the living mothers to create a makeshift, 3-D family tree!

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

Teach your child how to make an all-natural, yellow-brown dye, using just walnut shells and water. This deep dye can be used on textiles, art, and wood.

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.

Encourage a group of third graders to play this fun game of Whistle Hide-and-Seek as a warm-up to get them prepared for finding a "lost" camper.

Help your child make an attractive frozen holiday ornament to hang outside during winter months.

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

In this fun science fair project, make two different scale models of our solar system using Astronomical Units and planets' relative size!

Make a wish upon a tree with this craft that also helps your child learn more about Chinese culture.

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

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

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

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:

Put those fall leaves to use with this fun art activity. Kids paint and print leaves, to make a beautiful tablecloth, perfect for your next fall celebration.

Help your child understand the scientific concept of evaporation with this fun outdoor science activity.

This fun and crafty activity is easy enough for your child to lend a helping hand and makes a great indoor or outdoor game.

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