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

It's easier than you think to make homemade play dough -- just a few pantry staples makes a natural version of the toy that kids have loved for generations.

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

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.

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

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

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

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

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

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

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

This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.

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

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

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

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

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

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

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.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

What's cooler than an explosion? Not much! This simple science experiment lets kids build their own pop rocket. So put on your safety goggles and let her rip.

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.

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

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

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.