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

Boys might wrinkle their noses at the thought of gardening, but we guarantee they'll like this activity! Make a recycled terrarium full of bug-eating plants.

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

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!

Create a brush pile to help wintering wildlife stay warm and cozy through the winter.

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

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

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

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

This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

In this activity, your child will make her own "quicksand" to better understand how a substance can be both fluid and solid at the same time.

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

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.

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

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.