Encourage local wildlife to settle down in your backyard with this adorable bird nest craft.

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

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

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.

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

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

In this activity, find out who the flowers' "partners in crime" are by being a flower spy!

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

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.

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

Take to the air with science by experimenting with helicopter seeds right in your own backyard!

Transform your uncomfortable wooden shoes into charming mini planters!

All you need are pencils, paper and some scissors to get started on this easy and fun game to review astronomy information, or other types of study concepts.

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

Jazz up your patio or backyard with hip and quirky planters made from simple Mason jars.

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

Science fair project examining barometric pressure, and how it can be used to predict the weather. How does atmospheric pressures relate to weather conditions?

Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

Show your preschooler how to create a simple windsock using a colorful piece of tissue paper, a pipe cleaner, and yarn.

This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

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

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

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

Your child will be delighted to learn about and gaze upon his favorite constellations with this set of stellar homemade placemats!

The weather is a key kindergarten science concept. With this activity your child will learn about wind direction and create a self portrait, too!