Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

Invite your kindergarten marine biologist to practice in scientific identification and categorization while creating a lovely treasure box.

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

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.

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

In this fun activity, kids practice measurement and boost fine motor skills as they learn all about how fossils form and even make a few of their own!

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

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

Who knew that nature could get so crafty? Show your kindergartener how to collect and morph pinecones into a whole team of personalized pinecone people.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

This plaster fossil activity is a fun supplement to preschool science. Use plaster to make imprints of your child's handprints, footprints and other objects!

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

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

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

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.

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

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

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

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

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

Follow in the footsteps of movie character legends as you walk your little one through the steps of becoming a junior archaeologist.

Use natural materials to try out a new kind of weaving. Your child will enjoy gathering their materials outside and then using them to create a piece of art!

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

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.

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.

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

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

Make "fossils" with your child to hide in the sandbox or at the park or the beach, to help your child explore his archaeological side.