Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

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

Here's a science activity that lets a first grader use an empty dish detergent bottle to create his own fountain as he explores air pressure.

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!

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!

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!

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.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

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

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

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

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!

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).

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

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

Learn how to grow an avocado plant indoors with your 1st grader in this hands-on gardening activity.

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!

Your kindergartener will make prints of his favorite fruits and vegetables and learn how to organize and assemble his very own book.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Develop your child's green thumb with this easy planting activity. These plants are guaranteed to grow fast and are "brown-thumb" proofed!

In this science fair project, you'll make a "ghost" appear in a test tube, and learn about what happens when hot water and cold water interact.

Kids will explore the corrosiveness of soda in this cool science fair project by leaving pennies submerged in soda overnight.

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.

In this science and engineering activity, children will explore types of tunnels and their purposes and then design and build a tunnel of their own.

This kindergarten science activity will help her explore the changing states of matter which transform an egg from raw to soft to hard-boiled.

In this awesome science fair project idea, kids will be attempting to pick up different objects using snail slime.