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

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

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Blanket forts are a kid classic! Let your child create a âfortress of solitudeâ on his own for reading, telling scary stories or for cozy cocooning.

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

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

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

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