Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

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

In this fun science fair project, make two different scale models of our solar system using Astronomical Units and planets' relative size!

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.

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

This activity is a great way to stretch the boundaries of your child's imagination and build up important critical thinking skills.

This kinesthetic learning activity will help your fourth grader get a firm grasp on the immensity of the solar system.

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

Jazz up your patio or backyard with hip and quirky planters made from simple Mason jars.

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

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

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

Your child grows a green thumb and flowers with this seed planting activity that also celebrates the 100th day of school!

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Turn an abstract lesson into a practical craft with the fun and colorful creation of dough earth layers!

Your kid will delight in creating an extraterrestrial vehicle from goods found around the house. There's no telling where her imagination will go!

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

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.

Recreate the fantastic phenomena of solar eclipses with your child using just a flashlight, a quarter, and her very own face!

Learn about different fern fronds with your third grader as you create lacy, natural decorations on your Easter eggs this year.

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.

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

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

Make water and clay play a little more scientific with this hands-on experiment that teaches displacement and shows how an object's shape affects its buoyancy.

Celebrate autumn with a seasonal bash. Welcome the fall with a festive party for your little one and her friends, full of crafts, snacks and fun games.

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