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

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.

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!

This fun, think-outside-the-box activity introduces kids to gravity and other basic scientific concepts as they construct an impressive marble run!

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 child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

Brighten up your home with this fun activity! Make a summer sun print and teach your child the art of easy print making.

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.

The concept of metamorphosis is fascinating to children of all ages. Help your child's creativity take flight as she makes her very own butterfly life cycle.

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.

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!

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

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

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!

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.

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

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

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

Lead your first grader on a nature walk ... with a scavenger hunt-style twist! They'll try to capture photos that correspond to paint chip colors.

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

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations

Using scherenschnitte, your science-savvy second grader will be able to create and display each part of a vegetable!

Your kindergartener will have a blast helping you craft these fun, eco-friendly potted place cards.

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

Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

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.

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

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.

Teach your child to dye eggs with natural ingredients from the grocery store. From pink to gold, these eggs are perfect for hiding, hunting or simply munching.

Transform your uncomfortable wooden shoes into charming mini planters!