This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

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!

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

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.

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

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

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.

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

Recycling may be a confusing concept for your little one, so take the time to teach them the magic of compost - right in your own backyard!

In this kindergarten activity your child will create a map of your house and use a magnet to move pictures of your family through the house!

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!

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

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

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

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

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Ignite your kindergartener's love of adventure and learning with an imaginary trip under the sea.

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

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

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

This experiment works due to a simple principle: plants need light. Build a shoebox maze and watch the plant work though the obstacle course, searching for sun.

In this project, create and examine garden mulch to find out what critters live in the messy, muddy layers just above the soil.

Use simple materials to build a "worm hotel" with your kindergarten soil scientist...and see what worms really do all day.