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

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.

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

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.

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

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

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

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

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

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

Conduct a simple experiment with your child to study how dirt tracks change as they age in this 1st grade science activity.

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.

First graders are learning to think like scientists. What better place to start, then by raising tadpoles? This hands-on activity explores science in action!

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

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

Hunt for natureâs treasure, the many different products made by trees!

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

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

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

You don't need to head to the Arctic to experiment with life in an igloo. Learners can build their own ice igloo at home from water and empty milk containers.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

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

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

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!

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

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

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.