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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!

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

Make meringues with your first grader and see how states of matter can transform before your very eyes. Here's how:

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

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

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

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how:

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

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

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!

Help kids tap into their inner inventor by teaching them how to make peanut butter through trial, error, and lots of taste testing!

Slime: It's oozy, it's goopy, and it's just plain fun! Learn how to make slime with this fun science fair project.

Is that seed alive or not? Here's an exciting way for kindergarteners to make a seed museum that your child can watch, using simple household materials.

Take a trip to the pet store and then make a scrapbook to help your kindergartener learn the difference between living and non living things!

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

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

Help your child add some flair to the family garden with pencil pinwheels!

Bring the magic and mystery of the night sky to the light of day with this fun constellation art project!

This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

Create a habitat for a butterfly right in your own backyard, and build your first grader's science knowledge while you're at it.

Help your kids fall in love with nature by making a simple clay bird bath. Set it up in your yard and watch the animals venture in for a sip of water.

Your child will decorate a headband with any bugs they can think of, then they'll add antennae so they can pretend to be a bug!

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

Here's a first grade ladybug game that explores how air can move solid objects, and adds some measurement practice, too. Play, learn, and enjoy!

Recycling may be a confusing concept for your little one, so take the time to teach them the magic of compost - right in your own backyard!

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

In this kindergarten activity your child will create a map of your house and use a magnet to move pictures of your family through the house!

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.