This craft is an excellent way to learn about African-American history, and it also provides fine motor practice.

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

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!

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!

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

Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.

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

In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how:

In this free science fair project, learn how to separate salt from water using heat. A great science project for elementary school kids.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

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

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

Use natural materials to try out a new kind of weaving. Your child will enjoy gathering their materials outside and then using them to create a piece of art!

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!

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

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

Make a wish upon a tree with this craft that also helps your child learn more about Chinese culture.

How much water comes out of snow? Explore this timely question with your kindergarten scientist with this easy winter experiment.

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

This activity turns your kid into the family weatherman. Plus, it teaches him to collect data and begin to understand graphing.

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!

In this activity, your child will make her own "quicksand" to better understand how a substance can be both fluid and solid at the same time.

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

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

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.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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.