Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

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

This science exploration lets your first grader see how eggs can provide a perfect environment for a living, growing creature.

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

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.

This easy Halloween-themed science experiment for first-graders is perfect for chilly October afternoons or great as a Halloween party activity.

This super fun science project, perfect for young children, combines crafts, dressing up as animals, outdoor play, and life science learning.

It's easy to plant your own in-home container garden! This planter contains pizza-themed herbs and is a perfect early gardening activity for kindergarteners.

Play Rock Tic-Tac-Toe, the perfect outdoor game for all ages. Help your child develop thinking skills and get away from the TV!

In this project children practice the scientific method while playing with puffy paint.

This engaging project encourages young children to practice and refine the important scientific skills of sorting and classification.

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

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

This craft is an excellent way to learn about African-American history, and it also provides fine motor practice.

Satisfy your sweet tooth with this easy summer activity! Make homemade ice cream and let your child practice his science skills.

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!

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

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!

Here's a science experiment that gives your kids a chance to see how fire needs oxygen to burn, with a little math and writing practice thrown in.

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!

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

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

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

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.

Plant a mini herb garden and teach your child about science and nature.

You and your child can create this beautiful butterfly mobile for hanging anywhere in the home (and learn about this magical creature while you're at it).