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.

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.

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!

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

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.

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

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

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

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

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

It's a rare kid who doesn't like a sandbox. Next time you're out digging, build in some earth science, too.

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

Make a seed bomb and let your junior guerilla gardener spread flowers far and wide.

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

Follow in the footsteps of movie character legends as you walk your little one through the steps of becoming a junior archaeologist.

What better way to celebrate spring than with a fabulous flower party? Pack the day with fun flower activities and treats for a truly springalicious event!

Transform your uncomfortable wooden shoes into charming mini planters!

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

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

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

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.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

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.

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!

This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

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!

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.

Celebrate autumn with a seasonal bash. Welcome the fall with a festive party for your little one and her friends, full of crafts, snacks and fun games.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.

Can't make it to the beach? Bring the science of ocean waves home with this fun earth science-related craft.