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!

Follow in the footsteps of movie character legends as you walk your little one through the steps of becoming a junior archaeologist.

Here's a guide to starting a community clean-up project from scratch.

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

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

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!

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

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

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

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

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

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

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

Try this simple 2nd grade science experiment to teach your child about the principles of luminosity and light reflection.

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

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Help your second grade scientist explore the timely topic of wind speed using a version of the classic Beaufort Scale.

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Enjoy those warm spring and summer nights with your child while teaching some basic astronomy at the same time.