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

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

Creating a home for a toad is an easy and fun project for kids. Here's how to make your very own toad abode.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Help your child measure breezy weather in her environment by making a wind vane for kids, a simple version of the classic scientific measurement tool.

Transform your uncomfortable wooden shoes into charming mini planters!

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

Jazz up your patio or backyard with hip and quirky planters made from simple Mason jars.

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

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

This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

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.

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

April showers may bring May flowers, but your child can preserve the beauty of spring's bounty all year long with this simple craft project!

The weather is a key kindergarten science concept. With this activity your child will learn about wind direction and create a self portrait, too!

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!

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

Make all-natural dye from vegetables to create gorgeous homemade play-silks!

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

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.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

Help your kindergarten scientist explore an important part of earth science: how soil retains water.

Your preschooler is familiar with the colors in their crayon box, but can they find these colors in the world? Take them on a scavenger hunt to find out!

If your child aspires to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright, we've got some tips on building sand castles that last.

Your child grows a green thumb and flowers with this seed planting activity that also celebrates the 100th day of school!

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!

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!

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

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!