Is our water polluted? Help your young scientist understand the importance of taking care of the environment with this simple experiment.

This simple activity is not only fun, it's also a useful way to organize children's closets — and offer kids some autonomy to boot.

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

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

Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

This fun and crafty activity is easy enough for your child to lend a helping hand and makes a great indoor or outdoor game.

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 weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Help your child make an attractive frozen holiday ornament to hang outside during winter months.

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

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

In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how:

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

Help your preschooler craft a homemade wind spinning device--a surefire to make your backyard sparkle, and teach her a bit about weather!

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

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

Conduct a simple experiment with your child to study how dirt tracks change as they age in this 1st grade science activity.

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

How much water comes out of snow? Explore this timely question with your kindergarten scientist with this easy winter experiment.

Using plants and other items from the outdoors and clothing they already own, your kids can dress up as any one of the four seasons or simply as a Garden.

Let your young adventurer go bug hunting in the great outdoors with their very own bug net!

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!

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

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

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

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

Make a spring collage with your child to get them outside and those creative juices flowing!

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!