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

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

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

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.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

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

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

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

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

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

This tactile activity helps kindergarteners learn about texture.

This craft is an excellent way to learn about African-American history, and it also provides fine motor practice.

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

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.

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.

Who says snow globes are just for winter? Help your child create a summer version with this fun art project!

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

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!

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

This winter garden project is just about bomb-proof, and believe it or not, it might even make a great gift. So get craft happy with your first grader!

Allow your first grader to get his artwork outdoors this summer by letting him create a garden art box for his arts and crafts supplies.

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

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.

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

Put those fall leaves to use with this fun art activity. Kids paint and print leaves, to make a beautiful tablecloth, perfect for your next fall celebration.

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

Play Rock Tic-Tac-Toe, the perfect outdoor game for all ages. Help your child develop thinking skills and get away from the TV!

In first grade, children are introduced to fractions. Here's a recipe that combines fraction practice with winter fun and lets kids actually paint the snow!

Does your child always demand to know why the sky is blue, how the sun moves across the sky, or where wind comes from?

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