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Earth and Space Science

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

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

Pre-K

Earth and Space Science

Earth and Space Science

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

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

Kindergarten

Earth and Space Science

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Make a Self-Portrait from Nature

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Make a Self-Portrait from Nature

First Grade

Earth and Space Science

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

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Make a Self-Portrait from Nature

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Make a Self-Portrait from Nature

Create a self-portrait from natural materials in this collage craft activity!

First Grade

Earth and Space Science

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Make a Plastic Cup Monster!

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Make a Plastic Cup Monster!

Pre-K

Life Science

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

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Make a Plastic Cup Monster!

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Make a Plastic Cup Monster!

Learning about how plants grow is a building block in the early grades science curriculum. Put a fun twist on this life science concept with these cup monster friends!

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Create a soda bottle garden that defies gravity! This hanging terrarium is housed in a soda bottle and perfect for crafty kids with a growing green thumb.

Kindergarten

Life Science

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Watch Your Garden Grow

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Watch Your Garden Grow

Kindergarten

Life Science

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

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Watch Your Garden Grow

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Watch Your Garden Grow

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Earth and Space Science

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.

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.

Pre-K

Earth and Space Science

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Corn Maze STEM Challenge

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Corn Maze STEM Challenge

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

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Corn Maze STEM Challenge

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Corn Maze STEM Challenge

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Teach your child about healthy foods and how to make a meal that is good for them with this fun activity that you both can do together.

Pre-K

Life Science

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Natural Easter Egg Dyes

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Natural Easter Egg Dyes

First Grade

Measurement

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

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Natural Easter Egg Dyes

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Natural Easter Egg Dyes

Forget store-bought dyes this Easter: color your Easter eggs with natural dyes made with ingredients from your own kitchen in this 1st grade activity.

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

Perk up your front porch with this hanging vase craft, perfect for spring and for getting kids outdoors!

Kindergarten

Life Science

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Create a Shoebox Habitat

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Create a Shoebox Habitat

First Grade

Life Science

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

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Create a Shoebox Habitat

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Create a Shoebox Habitat

Children are imaginative story-builders. Create a shoebox habitat with your child to put those budding creative instincts to good use.

First Grade

Life Science

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Make a Sandcastle You Can Keep!

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Make a Sandcastle You Can Keep!

Pre-K

Earth and Space Science

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

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Make a Sandcastle You Can Keep!

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Make a Sandcastle You Can Keep!

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

Pre-K

Earth and Space Science

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Make a Changing Seasons Collage

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Make a Changing Seasons Collage

Pre-K

Earth and Space Science

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.

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Make a Changing Seasons Collage

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Make a Changing Seasons Collage

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.

Pre-K

Earth and Space Science

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"Oil Painting" for First Grade Scientists

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"Oil Painting" for First Grade Scientists

First Grade

Physical Science

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

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"Oil Painting" for First Grade Scientists

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"Oil Painting" for First Grade Scientists

Put a twist on traditional oil painting with this fun science activity that you and your first grader can do together.

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

This fun activity makes use of pasta shells, paint, and glue make a crab while your child learns about this unique creature.

First Grade

Life Science

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Create a Clay Garden Relief Sculpture

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Create a Clay Garden Relief Sculpture

First Grade

Earth and Space Science

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

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Create a Clay Garden Relief Sculpture

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Create a Clay Garden Relief Sculpture

Take the art making outside: have your first grader make a clay relief sculpture of the natural world. This is a great activity for summer.

First Grade

Earth and Space Science

Earth and Space Science

Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.

Teach your child the meaning of recycle and reuse by repurposing plastic spoons as plant markers for your vegetable garden.

First Grade

Earth and Space Science

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Make Dinosaur Footprints!

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Make Dinosaur Footprints!

First Grade

Earth and Space Science

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

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Make Dinosaur Footprints!

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Make Dinosaur Footprints!

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

First Grade

Earth and Space Science

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Get Your Head in the Clouds

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Get Your Head in the Clouds

First Grade

Earth and Space Science

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

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Get Your Head in the Clouds

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Get Your Head in the Clouds

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

First Grade

Earth and Space Science

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

First Grade

Patterns

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Create a Fish Art Print!

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Create a Fish Art Print!

First Grade

Life Science

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

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Create a Fish Art Print!

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Create a Fish Art Print!

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

It's easier than you think to make homemade play dough -- just a few pantry staples makes a natural version of the toy that kids have loved for generations.

It's easier than you think to make homemade play dough -- just a few pantry staples makes a natural version of the toy that kids have loved for generations.

First Grade

Physical Science

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Make a Milk Carton Bird House

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Make a Milk Carton Bird House

First Grade

Life Science

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

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Make a Milk Carton Bird House

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Make a Milk Carton Bird House

Help your first grader design and create his very own bird feeder out of an empty milk carton.

Earth and Space Science

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

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

First Grade

Earth and Space Science

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Make Your Own Stationery

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Make Your Own Stationery

First Grade

Earth and Space Science

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

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Make Your Own Stationery

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Make Your Own Stationery

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

First Grade

Earth and Space Science

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Give Birds a Feast with a Suet or Coconut Oil Feeder

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Give Birds a Feast with a Suet or Coconut Oil Feeder

First Grade

Life Science

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

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Give Birds a Feast with a Suet or Coconut Oil Feeder

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Give Birds a Feast with a Suet or Coconut Oil Feeder

Give your local birds a treat — and your young birdwatcher some fun — with this simple DIY bird feeder.

First Grade

Life Science

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Craft a Swan Plant Container

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Craft a Swan Plant Container

First Grade

Life Science

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

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Craft a Swan Plant Container

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Craft a Swan Plant Container

Teach your child about recycling and gardening as she re-uses an empty plastic milk gallon jug to craft a swan-shaped plant container!

First Grade

Life Science

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Create Changing Leaves Scratch Art

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Create Changing Leaves Scratch Art

First Grade

Life Science

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

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Create Changing Leaves Scratch Art

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Create Changing Leaves Scratch Art

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

First Grade

Life Science

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Build a Castle...and Explore First Grade Geometry!

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Build a Castle...and Explore First Grade Geometry!

First Grade

Geometry

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

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Build a Castle...and Explore First Grade Geometry!

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Build a Castle...and Explore First Grade Geometry!

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

First Grade

Geometry

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About 1st Grade Arts & Crafts Science Activities

On Education.com, 1st grade arts & crafts science activities include interactive projects that blend creativity with STEM concepts. These activities introduce young learners to topics like color mixing through experiments with coffee filters and light, explore physics with spin art and paper airplanes, and examine biology with craft-based habitats, flower prints, and leaf rubbings. Each lesson combines hands-on crafting with fun experiments that help children build early scientific understanding. The page provides printable worksheets, activity guides, and project ideas to engage your child's curiosity and develop foundational science skills.

The website offers a variety of 1st grade arts & crafts science resources, including printable lesson plans, structured activity sheets, and creative crafts that make learning hands-on. Parents and teachers can access materials that demonstrate scientific principles such as absorption, magnetism, and matter properties. These resources make it easy to incorporate STEM into everyday learning and classroom settings. Each activity is designed to be engaging, educational, and suitable for young children exploring the wonders of science through art.

This collection helps educators and parents save preparation time while providing structured science learning combined with artistic expression. Whether conducting experiments with salts and crayons or creating sensory habitats, learners can experiment confidently at school or home. The resources encourage curiosity, critical thinking, and artistic creativity, making science accessible and fun for young children. Each project promotes exploration and hands-on discovery that reinforces classroom lessons with engaging, practical examples.

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