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

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

Are you looking for an out-of-this world activity that's both fun and educational? This solar system garland is a great way to introduce your child to astronomy.

Make an adorable nut buddy by crafting nature people out of nuts in shells! Buddies will take on their own personalities depending on the materials you use.

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.

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.

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.

You don't need to wait for rain to see a rainbow. Make one yourself, and teach your child about light and weather in the process.

Hatch a praying mantis egg case in a homemade habitat with your child's help! This is an amazing experiment in science and nature for kids of any age.

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

Let your second grader pay homage to an ancient Olympic tradition with this modern day Olympic wreath!

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

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!

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

Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

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

Does your child always demand to know why the sky is blue, how the sun moves across the sky, or where wind comes from?

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

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

Recreate the fantastic phenomena of solar eclipses with your child using just a flashlight, a quarter, and her very own face!

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.

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

Is your child a young ornithologist in the making?

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!

Help your second grade scientist explore the timely topic of wind speed using a version of the classic Beaufort Scale.

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

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

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.