Elementary School Earth and Space Science Activities : Page 5

Planning a beach vacation? Here's a cool nature craft you can make in the sand with your child.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

This craft is an excellent way to learn about African-American history, and it also provides fine motor practice.

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

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

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

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

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Use the textures found in nature to create your own stationery! This fun, outdoor activity will no doubt inspire your child's creative side.

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

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

Teach your fifth grader about the wonders of wind by making and observing this winter wind chime.

This year on Mother's Day, try this gift project that brings together an appreciation for gardening with a hands-on lesson in art history.

This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

Recreate the fantastic phenomena of solar eclipses with your child using just a flashlight, a quarter, and her very own face!

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

The rock cycle will come alive for your child when he uses broken crayons to create the three basic rock types.

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!

Make a wish upon a tree with this craft that also helps your child learn more about Chinese culture.

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.

Your preschooler is familiar with the colors in their crayon box, but can they find these colors in the world? Take them on a scavenger hunt to find out!

Make all-natural dye from vegetables to create gorgeous homemade play-silks!

Give some of your local ladybugs a warm place to stay for the winter by making a ladybug home with recycled materials.

Help your second grader observe the phases of the moon, and then let the fun loose: he'll get to chart his observations with marshmallows!

The weather is a key kindergarten science concept. With this activity your child will learn about wind direction and create a self portrait, too!

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

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

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

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!

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.