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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

Looking for a fun summer adventure? Learn what it was like to be a prospector during the California Gold Rush by panning for gold in a local creek.

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

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

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

Make an adorable nut buddy by crafting nature people out of nuts in shells! Buddies will take on their own personalities depending on the materials you use.

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.

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.

Encourage a group of third graders to play this fun game of Whistle Hide-and-Seek as a warm-up to get them prepared for finding a "lost" camper.

You don't need to wait for rain to see a rainbow. Make one yourself, and teach your child about light and weather in the process.

Hatch a praying mantis egg case in a homemade habitat with your child's help! This is an amazing experiment in science and nature for kids of any age.

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

Let your second grader pay homage to an ancient Olympic tradition with this modern day Olympic wreath!

Learners hypothesize about and experiment with soil erosion in this hands-on activity.

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!

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

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

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