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

This project can help prepare your child for a trip to the tide pools, or give him a way to remember some of the many creatures he saw during his visit.

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

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!

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!

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

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.

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

Have your child build his own mini waterfall, and help him develop his planning, problem solving, and architectural skills.

Pair a planetarium visit with this fun art project that mimics the look of far-off galaxies.

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!

Here's a fourth grade science craft with lots of benefits: it's good for birds, good for your child's learning, and good for the planet, too.

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

Encourage your child to jump into sea creature science by creating her own colorful "socktopus" sculpture.

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.

Got a birdwatcher on your hands? Bring the birds to your backyard by making a zany bird feeder using an orange and some string.

Turn an abstract lesson into a practical craft with the fun and colorful creation of dough earth layers!

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

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.