Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

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!

Children use their design thinking skills and powers of observation to create and construct a bird nest.

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

How can you tell the difference between a spider and an insect? Your child will find out as he makes a tray of yummy creepy crawly snacks.

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

Have your little astronaut create her own crater-filled moon with this fun craft project that encourages learning about the final frontier.

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.

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

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

This two-ingredient dough, sometimes called "moon sand," is a quick and cheap way to let kids explore their senses, build fine motor skills, and play.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Make a periscope with milk cartons and mirrors! This preschool activity is great for playing secret agent and learning simple physics.

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.

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!

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

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

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

In this hands-on activity, kids learn what it takes to foster seedlings into full-grown plants, all in a regular old soda bottle!

Discover the wonders of simple clay by pressing flowers into a modeling medium!

Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

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.

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.

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

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!

Looking for a fun way to encourage imaginative play? Try crafting these animal dice with your preschooler.