Movement activities are crucial for developing minds and bodies. Animal movements, in particular, encourage children to think about their own body mechanics in comparison with animals they may have observed.

The next time you and your fifth grader go on a hike, take along this key to figure out which common North American animal left a track along the river bank.

This art project encourages kids to look closely at their favorite animal and recreate texture, pattern and silhouette with easy to follow instructions.

In this game, players will learn interesting facts about animal adaption and practice them using a fun matching card game!

Help your child get creative and collect leaves of various sizes and textures that she can use to make animal art.

Help your child learn about animal classification with this fun and delicious activity.

Science fair project idea that examines different physical characteristics of a chosen animal. Make educated guesses about evolution based on animal's form.

Science fair project in which you will learn more about the natural world by preserving and identifying different animal tracks.

Young artists will combine two animals into one in this imaginative art-project-slash-game!

This activity will make you want to celebrate more often, and save them up for a collection of cork animals.

Get this cool science fair idea to explore how arctic tundra animals change their behavior and adapt to survive in long, cold winters.

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

What animals are most popular? This project affords practice in data-collection, record-keeping and data-analysis through the investigation of this question.

These easy-to-make felt friends are created by sewing two pieces of felt together with yarn and make great gifts for holidays such as Easter.

Check out this cool science fair project idea to explore which other common animals besides scorpions glow under a UV Black light.

This science fair project examines how seeds hitchhike on animals and clothing.

Have your child build a model of a coral polyp, one of the tiny animals that composes a coral reef.

Free science fair project idea that examines the differences between cats and dogs. Analyze objective qualities rather than subjective ones.

Using butcher paper, ink and charcoal, your child will explore ancient motifs such as buffalo, bison and hunters by creating her very own cave painting.

Protozoa and ciliate and amoeba, oh my! The objective of this science fair project is for students to use a microscope and identify microscopic life.

This science fair project idea attempts to train a worm to complete a simple maze in order to find out if worms can learn and remember.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

Your fourth grader be delighted to create monkey companions out of poster board! They also provide a perfect opportunity to teach her interesting monkey facts.

Inspire your fifth grader to explore a new culture and determine her New Year's fortune by playing this German wax dripping game.

Create origami claws that can transform your child into a bird, cat, or other clawed creature.

This science fair project idea explores whether cats can be trained in the same way that dogs can.

This project uses science and art to help students learn and teach others about Earth's endangered and extinct species.

This science fair project idea compares biodiversity between drops of water.

Host a dog wash to raise money for yourself, for charity, or just for fun!

Using aluminum is a great way to recycle and make some shiny ornaments borrowing from this traditional Mexican art form. Here's an easy kids' activity!