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.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

With some cookie dough and ordinary household objects, let your kindergartener explore how fossil imprints are made.

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!

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

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

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.

In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.

This activity is a great way to stretch the boundaries of your child's imagination and build up important critical thinking skills.

Put an oatmeal box, a flashlight, and some construction paper together and you have the makings of an incredibly cool bedroom planetarium!

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

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

Kids are sure to be entranced by the magic of the ocean when they create their very own ocean in a bottle.

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.

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

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

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 tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Try this fun garden graphing project with your kindergartener this summer to give him a leg up in math and science while spending some valuable time outdoors!

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

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

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.

Use dirt and different colors of craft sand to make unique layers in a clear plastic cup to represent the layers of the Earth.

Recreate the fantastic phenomena of solar eclipses with your child using just a flashlight, a quarter, and her very own face!

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

Learn about different fern fronds with your third grader as you create lacy, natural decorations on your Easter eggs this year.

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.

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.

The rock cycle will come alive for your child when he uses broken crayons to create the three basic rock types.