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

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

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

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.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

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

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.

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

Make a wish upon a tree with this craft that also helps your child learn more about Chinese culture.

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.

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.

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.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Help your second grader observe the phases of the moon, and then let the fun loose: he'll get to chart his observations with marshmallows!

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

What's a crater, and how does it happen? Here's a kindergarten experiment with safe, nontoxic ingredients.

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

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

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

Use sticks and stones to create create an outdoor version of tic-tac-toe!

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!

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

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

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

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!

Help your child understand the scientific concept of evaporation with this fun outdoor science activity.

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.