This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

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

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!

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.

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

The pinwheel is a simple toy that has been around for years and uses the wonders of the wind to spin it and delight kids of all ages!

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

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

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

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.

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.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

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.

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.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Looking for a fun way to encourage imaginative play? Try crafting these animal dice with your preschooler.

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

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.

Have your child make a special mobile inspired by the weather outside. Learn about seasons, the environment, and art in 3D.

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

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!