Earth and Space Science Activities : Page 4

Have your little astronaut create her own crater-filled moon with this fun craft project that encourages learning about the final frontier.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

In this activity, your kid will watch coal turn into crystals right before her very eyes, and learn some science along the way!

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

What better way to nurture your child's imagination than by making a fairy house out of materials found in nature!

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

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

This activity turns your kid into the family weatherman. Plus, it teaches him to collect data and begin to understand graphing.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

Teach your child how to make an all-natural, yellow-brown dye, using just walnut shells and water. This deep dye can be used on textiles, art, and wood.

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!

Show your preschooler how to construct this very special planter for Mom. It makes a great pick-me-up, and it's easy for kids to make in a flash!

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.

How much water comes out of snow? Explore this timely question with your kindergarten scientist with this easy winter experiment.

Let your fabulous crafter use their favorite flowers, fruits and herbs to whip up a delicious perfume that they can proudly present to a friend or a loved one.

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

A mixture of botany, exploration, Abstract Art and Pop Art color theoryâthis activity never gets dull! Start by exploring outdoors and finish with indoor art.

Many ancient cultures used the rising or setting sun to create calendars. Observe the setting sun once a week to come up with your own solar calendar!

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.

Create a brush pile to help wintering wildlife stay warm and cozy through the winter.

It's a rare kid who doesn't like a sandbox. Next time you're out digging, build in some earth science, too.

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!

Does your child always demand to know why the sky is blue, how the sun moves across the sky, or where wind comes from?

This easy at-home experiment is a great way to "see" science.

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

Do plants breathe? Not exactly. They do respire though! This activity will help your child with see that plants are producing the oxygen we need to survive.

Have your kid build an ice sculpture in this activity that's so fast, fun, and messy it's the perfect way to demonstrate how much fun experiments can be!

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.

What's a crater, and how does it happen? Here's a kindergarten experiment with safe, nontoxic ingredients.