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In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

This adventurous art project will send kids on a scavenger hunt for fall materials they can use in their artwork. This craft also teaches kids about seasons.

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.

Do this experiment to help your first grader understand how salt can be removed from salt water. All it takes are a few household materials.

Have your child make a special mobile inspired by the weather outside. Learn about seasons, the environment, and art in 3D.

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

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

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

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

Did you know magnifying glasses are magic? This hands-on activity has kids using magnifying glasses to engage with the world around them and look close to examine what they find.

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

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

What do you get when you combine science and fairies? Fairy scientists who make their own potion, of course! This activity promotes critical thinking skills as your child mixes, experiments, and creates their very own fairy potions.

Make an edible play dough with your child to help her develop her sensory and motor skills.

Make this easy composting dessert and then enjoy the yummy results!

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.

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

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.