Encourage your child to think outside the bathtub by making her very own handmade soaps! Perfect as a present, a decoration, or just to pamper herself.

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

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

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.

Who needs paint, glitter, or crayons when you have natural art supplies right outside your front door?

Create a mini plant habitat with your kid to help teach him what it takes to make an ecosystem work.

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

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

Inspire your child to put on her engineer hat for the day, as she builds her very own, double-decker bridge.

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

Encourage local wildlife to settle down in your backyard with this adorable bird nest craft.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

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

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

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

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Make a DIY golf putter and design your own golf putting course in this 2nd-3rd grade arts and crafts/game activity.

The pinwheel is a simple toy that has been around for years and uses the wonders of the wind to spin it and delight kids of all ages!

In this activity, you'll not only make your own bouncy balls at home, but your child will also learn how polymers are made.

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

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

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

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

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.

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.

Let your second grader pay homage to an ancient Olympic tradition with this modern day Olympic wreath!

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