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

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Make all-natural dye from vegetables to create gorgeous homemade play-silks!

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.

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

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.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

It's easier than you think to make homemade play dough -- just a few pantry staples makes a natural version of the toy that kids have loved for generations.

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.

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.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Science fair project that determines whether lettuce that is harvested gradually yields more produce than lettuce that is harvested all at once.

This second grade arts and crafts activity is all about caterpillars emerging from their cocoons as butterflies.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

First grade science often covers solids, liquids, and gases. This silly science explores serious facts about the difference between all three.

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!

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

What makes your shadow dance around all day? Let's play detective and find out why that sneaky shadow never stays in one place for long.

Chemistry is a blast with this backyard bomb made from a sandwich bag. All you need are ingredients from the pantry to create a satisfying, and safe, explosion.

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

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Science fair project that demonstrates the effect of detergent pollution on fresh water birds' ability to stay afloat.

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

This science fair project enhances the understanding and awareness of energy use and explores the concept of energy efficient.

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.