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 year on Mother's Day, try this gift project that brings together an appreciation for gardening with a hands-on lesson in art history.

This slightly messy, but tons-of-fun tactile activity will cement the idea of the land and water as pictured on maps in your young learner's mind.

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

This kinesthetic learning activity will help your fourth grader get a firm grasp on the immensity of the solar system.

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.

In this activity, your child will learn about a style of gardening that uses moss, also called "kokedama."

Help your child plant a "tea garden": a garden made of herbs for making teas.

Help your fifth grader embrace the roots--literally--of Mother's Day by growing carnations to honor mothers in you family's history.

Grow borax crystals and get your child excited about Earth science with this crafty science experiment.

Some fossils have been been preserved for billions of years! Help your kid understand how fossils are created and preserved with this crafty project.

Lead your first grader on a nature walk ... with a scavenger hunt-style twist! They'll try to capture photos that correspond to paint chip colors.

Play Rock Tic-Tac-Toe, the perfect outdoor game for all ages. Help your child develop thinking skills and get away from the TV!

Your kid will delight in creating an extraterrestrial vehicle from goods found around the house. There's no telling where her imagination will go!

This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

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

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Learn about different fern fronds with your third grader as you create lacy, natural decorations on your Easter eggs this year.

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

This activity is a great way to stretch the boundaries of your child's imagination and build up important critical thinking skills.

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

This crafty activity provides a hands-on way for your child to illustrate how the trees look during each season of the year.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Summer is a great time to work on pre-kindergarten skills that will serve your child well in her first year at school, while having some fun in the sun!

Want to get your bookworm interested in science? Check out this cool activity that teaches kids how to write science fiction!

Kids will love making clouds and learning how to make a water cycle model in this fun science fair project idea that explores evaporation and precipitation.

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

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

Here's how you and your teen can stage your own formal debateâbeyond arguing why chores are unethical! Formal debates improve teens' critical thinking skills.