Early Childhood Earth and Space Science Activities

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

This crafty activity provides a hands-on way for your child to illustrate how the trees look during each season of the year.

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.

Help your preschooler craft a homemade wind spinning device--a surefire to make your backyard sparkle, and teach her a bit about weather!

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

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

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.

Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.

Can't make it to the beach? Bring the science of ocean waves home with this fun earth science-related craft.

Your preschooler wonât need a passport to go on this nature safari! All you need are paper, crayons and a nature trail or your back yard.

Kids are sure to be entranced by the magic of the ocean when they create their very own ocean in a bottle.

Show your child the solar system and let them explore the stars and space by creating a painting. It's a fun and easy way capture your child's imagination.

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.

Take advantage of the spring and summer sun in this arts and crafts activity that has your learner creating pretty flower prints.

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

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

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

This simple activity is not only fun, it's also a useful way to organize children's closets — and offer kids some autonomy to boot.

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

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!

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

This fall, make a leaf crown that will encourage creative play and your child's interest in the natural world while you help them build fine motor skills.

Build a bird feeder science craft that brings birds to your yard, and a smile to the whole family's face.

Help your child make an attractive frozen holiday ornament to hang outside during winter months.

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

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

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

Celebrate April showers with a springtime arts and crafts activity: make sparkly, shiny raindrops with your kid.

Help your kindergarten scientist explore an important part of earth science: how soil retains water.

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.