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.

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.

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

Is your little scientist up for a rocky challenge? Let them make their own geode rocks using eggs and epsom salts!

Learn about nature by making your own mini moss garden.

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

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Unlike other seed sprouting projects, this one allows kids to compare five different sprouts (either 5 herbs or 5 flowers) by watching them grow in a glove.

Want to spark your third grader's interest in gardening? Help him make popsicle stick fairies to decorate an enchanting garden oasis.

If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.

Make a wish upon a tree with this craft that also helps your child learn more about Chinese culture.

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!

If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

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

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

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

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

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

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

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!

Try this simple 2nd grade science experiment to teach your child about the principles of luminosity and light reflection.

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

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

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.

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