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

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.

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

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

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

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

Help your second grader observe the phases of the moon, and then let the fun loose: he'll get to chart his observations with marshmallows!

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

Create your own cloud with an activity that will explain how important concepts such as evaporation, condensation, and precipitation work.

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

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!

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

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

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

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.

Help your second grade scientist explore the timely topic of wind speed using a version of the classic Beaufort Scale.

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!

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

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

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.

You don't need to wait for rain to see a rainbow. Make one yourself, and teach your child about light and weather in the process.

The rock cycle will come alive for your child when he uses broken crayons to create the three basic rock types.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

Help your child understand the scientific concept of evaporation with this fun outdoor science activity.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

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

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.

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.