Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

Help your preschooler practice observing and experimenting with this exciting activity where they'll get to examine objects below the water's surface!

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!

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

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

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

This activity is a fun way for your first grader to learn about how veggies help your body while being creative with art and drama. Here's how to get started.

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.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

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.

Nature is the greatest teacher, and you can help facilitate the lesson! Here's how to create a supply backpack to get your kid ready for science action!

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!

Boost your preschooler's attention to detail by getting her to explore the differences between two different pumpkins: large and small.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

This science fair project idea experiments with unusual ideas in fashion design and the development of eco-friendly fashion products.

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

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

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

With this science fair idea, little scientists will gain valuable insights into the physics behind throwing a baseball.

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

Inspire your child to learn about an amazing animal as she creates her very own polar bear habitat.

Here's a simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

This activity works well with a group or just with a parent and child, and it can make a great party game since it's both fun and inexpensive.