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

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

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

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.

This simple activity is not only fun, it's also a useful way to organize children's closets — and offer kids some autonomy to boot.

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

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

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

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

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

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

Discover the wonders of simple clay by pressing flowers into a modeling medium!

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.

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.

Have your kid build an ice sculpture in this activity that's so fast, fun, and messy it's the perfect way to demonstrate how much fun experiments can be!

If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

Did you know that August is American Artist Month? Your child can explore the art of photography by using a digital camera to capture the landscape around her.

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

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

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

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

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

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