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.

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

Help your child experiment with the combination of acid and baking soda by making these homemade bath bombs!

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

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

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

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

Your second grader will love this simple soda bottle race car activity. Make a ramp and customize your car for an entertaining way to learn scientific concepts.

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

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

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.

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

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

This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.

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

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

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

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

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

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

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

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.

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

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.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.