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.

Teach your creative second grader about proportions, animals, and proper cutting methods with cucumber carving.

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

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

Encourage local wildlife to settle down in your backyard with this adorable bird nest craft.

This clay "painting" activity encourages and supports creative development and critical thinking skills.

Your child will create her own falling snowflakes using white paper and glue them over a tree, so it appears as if they are falling from the sky.

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.

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

This fun marbled paper craft uses things you're likely to have around your house, and it teaches kids some simple chemistry too!

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

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.

In this art project, budding entomologists will create a larger than life, moveable puppet version of a praying mantis.

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

Using a glass fishbowl, you and your kids can create a low-humidity, open-topped terrarium perfect for easy care, drought-tolerant succulents.

This homemade barometer allows your little scientist to contemplate and compare different air and weather conditions.

Help your child celebrate the summer and the sun by making a sandy seascape.

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

Is your child a young ornithologist in the making?

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

Tin can phones offer something modern versions don't—a fun project to make with a friend, and a dramatic illustration of vibration and sound waves.

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

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

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

This snowman's not abominable, he's adorable! Your child can bring her very own snowman to life while practicing how to create texture.

Travel back to the Jurassic age with this creative dinosaur activity that would make a great addition to any wall or fridge.

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

Your child can use Styrofoam, green paint and toothpicks to create her own cactus plant sculpture.

Has your child ever played weatherman? Try this science activity that lets kids try their hands at observing and predicting the weather.

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!