You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).

This craft is an excellent way to learn about African-American history, and it also provides fine motor practice.

Who says snow globes are just for winter? Help your child create a summer version with this fun art project!

Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

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.

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

Pair a planetarium visit with this fun art project that mimics the look of far-off galaxies.

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

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.

Make all-natural dye from vegetables to create gorgeous homemade play-silks!

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

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.

Is your child a young ornithologist in the making?

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

Here's an arts and crafts guide for your high-school teenager that'll help her create a naturalist drawing and painting.

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.

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

It's easier than you think to make homemade play dough -- just a few pantry staples makes a natural version of the toy that kids have loved for generations.

This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

Your child will create an adorable Christmas tree from their footprint and practice counting while decorating their tree with objects of a variety of textures.

Show your preschooler how to construct this very special planter for Mom. It makes a great pick-me-up, and it's easy for kids to make in a flash!